Wayfinder V7500 Compass
I remember back in the 80’s when I bought an electronic car compass, back then there were no gps models for cars- and heck in my teens I just wanted it because it lit up in blue. The accuracy of car compasses back then was awful. My blue compass picked up the coils in the engine and always pointed East.
Well, car based compasses have come a long long way since then. This model lights up in green. It still has the ability to impress however. It touts a precision digital compass with heading display.
As if that weren’t enough - it also has an atomic clock. So the unit will set itself to the atomic time server automatically. Just tell it what part of the USA you are in and the time is always accurate to the 1000′th of a second.
It has an altimeter to tell you just how far above or below sea level you are at, a barometer - so you can read the air pressure and figure out when your ears are about to do the dreaded pop.
Also included is a 12-24 weather forecast to give you the heads up on what the weather is about to do on your drive.
Very handily backlit in todays ultra cool green - the unit runs on a high powered Lithium battery so theres no need for wires going down to the lighter socket.
Suction cup mounting adheres the unit to the window - and with no wires this trumps my poor old Radio Shack compass of the 1980’s by a long shot. - Whats more is this unit wont always point East 
You can find it at Skymall for $89.95
and might I add theres just about no man with a decent love for his car that wouldn’t love this for Christmas. If you want to go a bit further and get a GPS system for a gift - check out the Mio DigiWalker C320 GPS Receiver We spotlighted a while back - as its price is unbeatable.
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