A few months ago, my sweetheart said one of those things that’d make every geek start drooling: “I hate getting lost each time I drive into Cologne. Can’t we get a TomTom?” I love getting a free ticket to spend obscene amounts of cash on a gadget, without all the weak, post-hoc rationalizing why it’s so useful, usually met with something between fury and pity, depending on its price tag, size, number of cables, and overall potential for destroying your living room’s visual appearance. But I digress.

For those of you living under a gadget-proof rock for the last few years, a TomTom is a GPS car navigation system made by the current market leader of the same name. You stick it to your windscreen with a suction cup, tap in your destination address, and off you go, hopefully in the right direction…