It looks like a navigation system from the year 2020 but this baby will be soon on the market for lucky South Koreans. Made by HTMS it’s called the Provia A1. The GPS component sports wicked looking 3D models so you can actually reference the real-life topography with what’s being shown on the screen. For map-challenged people like myself, that alone is worth this thing’s weight in gold.

The images are displayed on a 7-inch 800 x 400 resolution touchscreen which can also display a movie as a picture-in-picture. That’s right, you can look for landmarks while watching that DVD you just picked up from Best Buy. There is even a DMB receiver so you can view digital television broadcasts while on the road. We recommend that you have your collision insurance paid up before using one of these babies.

The Provia A1 runs off of a 520MHz Intel PXA270 processor and has 128MB of RAM, an SD expansion slot (for up to 2 GB worth of memory), stereo speakers, USB 2.0 connectivity, AV inputs and audio in/out jacks. The OS is WinCE.net 5.0 and you can play files from a ton of formats including MP3/4, WMA, WMV, DivX, XviD and loads more. There is even handwriting recognition software built in to this thing. Still no word on availability or pricing.

Now here is the downer part: so far there has been no word if anyone in the west will ever have the chance to use one of these gadgets on our roadways. Still, now that we have seen it being used for Korea it can only be a matter of time before a similar offering turns up on our shores.

Technabob via Engadget