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Harmons latest product for your car's dashboard is packing GPS but it's not a new V and it's no Navigator I mean it's one good one let's take a look at the Garmin dash cam 20 now the dash cam 20 is a dashboard camera or dashboard DVR it's basically a little black box that suction cups to your windshield on the front of it there's a small HD camera that can record at 1080p 720p or as low down as VGA on the back we've got an LCD screen that you can use for framing your shots and for looking at the video that the dash cam records after-the-fact on the side we've got a small port for the included USB to 12-volt power cable that you use to power this thing while you're driving there is a battery pack in here so you can use it without it being plugged up if you don't want to drape cables over your dashboard and on the other side we've got our power button and the slot for the included four gigabyte micro sd card now this thing can actually accept up to a 32 gigabyte micro SD card if you want more space for recordings what are you recording well basically what this thing does is it sticks on the front of your windshield and it records a video of what's happening out in front of your car it's also recording audio of what's happening in your car but you can turn that off if you don't want it capturing all of your singing and stuff when you're driving along what it's doing is it's taking a continuous loop of as much video as it can save on its SD card and a G sensor in this thing is actually looking out for any sort of strong shocks or vibrations if you hit something like a pothole or another car the G sensor detects that accident and it captures a couple of seconds leading up to the shock and a couple of seconds following hopefully capturing the accident within that footage the dash cam 20 also has a built-in GPS receiver so it knows your latitude and longitude and it can store your speed the direction that you're traveling and the date and time it encodes that at the bottom of the video now that video stored on the card and the dot avi format that you can retrieve either by removing the SD card later or just plugging it into your computer if you've actually been in an accident you can remove the dash cam 20 from your windshield and use it to snap still photos of them any damage or the scene that you can use to recall later now the dash cam 20 is going to retail for $249 there's also a dash cam tin that slots in below it that loses the GPS sensor and the ability to track your speed direction latitude and longitude that's going to be 2:19 this is probably the one you're going to want to get it's only thirty bucks more I'm Antoine Goodwin and this has been a scene at first look at the Garmin dash cam 20 dashboard camera