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GLOBALSAT BU353 Waterproof USB GPS Receiver

GARMIN 010-00321-00 GPS 18 Deluxe USB Sensor

The Globalsat BU-353 would be my first choice, it has very good reviews and it is waterproof.

Verismo’s VuNow allows you to stream Internet video content directly to your TV. The MediaMVP was a similar device, but was used to get content off your computer (unless you use something like MVPMC). According to Verismo, it’s simple to use and easy to install. We can find out on December 15th for $99.

VuNow™ Features

Verismo’s VuNow is the only solution that provides everything a consumer wants. Access to the broadest online content, simple to use, easy to install, and compact in size — all at an affordable price.

• A Standard Definition and a High Definition model of the VuNow PoD that can connect to any TV

• Support for wired or wireless connectivity
• Navigation using a TV-friendly and intuitive User Interface
• Watch YouTube™ videos on TV by categories
• Search for videos with the powerful built-in video search engine
• Choose from a large selection of movies and download from CinemaNow™
• Download videos using BitTorrent™ protocol
• Watch videos directly from popular websites by categories
• Watch Live TV Channels from around the world
• Access to Personal Media such as video, music, and photos from the home network stored on a PC, Networked Attached Storage device, or even on a connected USB storage device

Verismo’s VuNow

Ultra-Mobile PC (laptops)

• Motherboard: Asus M2N4
  • Supports AMD socket AM2 (Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 X2 / Athlon 64 / Sempron
  • SLI Support (Takes advantage of the increased bandwidth of the PCI Express bus architecture and allows two video cards to efficiently work together to deliver nearly 2X performance!)
  • SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5
• Video Card: NVidia Quadro FX1400 PCI-E 128MB (SLI compatible)
• CPU: AMD X2 4200+ (Retail version to get AMD’s approved fan and heatsink to get a longer warranty)
• Case: Antec P180
• Power Supply: ANTEC|TP3-650 (650 Watts SLI compatible)
• SATA Harddrive: Western Digital Raptor 74GB with 16MB buffer size (Very fast harddrive but a little noisy)
• RAM: 2 GB RAM PC2-4200 DDR2 (Max 8GB)
• Monitor: JW-199DPB 19″ Hanns-G LCD
• Printer: All-In-One HP PSC1410 which is fully Linux compatible.

The motherboard doesn’t come with Firewire (IEEE 1394) interface but the case has a front firewire port which would be useful if I ever add a PCI firewire adapter

Possible upgrades:

• More RAM
• Second identical video card
• Another Raptor harddrive to use RAID capabilities
• upgrade processor