Almost every area of modern technology is moving forwards at an unbelievable rate, but some areas seem to have a little more pace than others.It is the areas of personal computing and entertainment technology that seem to have come on the most, and this is largely down to the increased demand for such products. Technology that helps with personal navigation has also moved on a long way. Here are 3 of the most prominent advances in the last few years.

Sat Navigation. In-car navigational technology has been around for over ten years now, but its rate of progress has accelerated recently. They have become more usable in difficult or busy driving areas as their re-routing speed is now much faster and they can factor in things like road works and traffic accidents from live feeds. It is now a lot easier to navigation the menus and enter addresses as well using new intelligent touch-screens. You can even get them built into phones now, making them a favourite of cheats on orienteering team building days.

Transport Information. Trains, planes, boats and all sorts of other vehicles have been going for ages, but it has not always been easy to find out when they are leaving or arriving, especially at late notice. That all changed however when travel operators started publishing their timetables onto the world wide web for everyone to see. Furthermore, there are aggregator programs that allow you to type in a venue such as

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