Cobra Electronics has announced a new line of radar detectors that are the world’s first touchscreen models, for those of you who need to see upcoming radar and speed cameras. There’s also a model for under $200, with no touchscreen.

The two touchscreen models are the XRS 9970G and XRS 9965. Both have 1.5-inch color interfaces. The XRS 9970G will work with Cobra’s AURA Camera Driving Hazard Database and has IntelliView Pro which will give you a pictorial alert. They arrive in March for under $379.95.

We’ve seen our share of pocket-sized speed radar detectors, but the new Pocket Radar might be the first that could actually fit in your pocket. Or in the palm of your hand. Of course there are some trade-offs for the size.

Still, the company says that it “forges a new standard in speed radar performance,” and supposedly it can track the speed of everything from a fastball to race car within one mile per hour. We can only take their word for it.

The Cheetah C50 is a small GPS speed camera detector with 65 unique spoken voice alerts that cover various types of threats. The device can identify different types of cameras for speed, red light, speed-on-green, and also is capable of telling you if the camera is on a freeway, a highway, an exit ramp, a frontage road, etc. It will give you an edge while speeding away.

The Cheetah C50 has a speedometer, compass, and directional intelligence, so you won’t be caught off guard by false alarms for cameras on the other side of the freeway. At $100 it will hopefully save you some money on speeding tickets.

This device may have the look of a child’s toy, but it can come in very handy. At any given intersection it will let you know if its being monitored by a red light camera or a speed trap. Like I said, very handy. The 1.6″ OLED display shows your car’s current location and alerts you to presence of a red light camera based upon an internal database of 6,000 red light and speed camera locations.

It will notify you using either audio or visual alerts. The database can even be updated by connecting it to your computer and downloading them for free for a year. After that it’s $19.95 per month.

This device will make detecting speed cameras and red light camera detectors easy. The Cheetah GPSmirror features a built-in GPS that comes preloaded with the locations of all of these enforcement cameras, thereby letting you avoid them and thumb your nose at the law.

It will automatically warn you when you are approaching a camera or passing over the speed limit, via voice, tone and visual alerts. This is a useful device that will keep you out of trouble. The Cheetah GPSmirror will cost you $250. Which is much cheaper than all the tickets you have already gotten.

When I was a kid, my dad always had radar detectors in his car. All I remember is that each time we passed a store, a cell phone, or a tree the thing would beep. I never understood how you were supposed to know if it was the police looking for speeders or someone walking into a gas station that set the device off.

Escort has a new radar detector called the Redline that offers dual antennas to make the range much longer than other radar detectors. Escort claims that the detector can recognize radar and laser signatures from 13 miles away.

If you are the type that is a perennial speeder you probably already have a radar detector in your car. Not all radar detectors are created equal and if you have an older one you know how each time you drive by a Wal-Mart it goes off.

Escort is one of the top names in radar detectors and its Passport line has a new item called the 9500ix. This radar detector has the 360-degree protection from radar and laser speed detectors. In addition to the standard radar and laser detection the 9500ix also has a GPS-enabled database for speed cameras.

Personally I find little need for a Wi-Fi detector these days since my phone and my notebook both do a good job of finding open networks. If I can’t find it with one of those I’m not going to be able to use the wireless network, anyway. There are however a number of uses and apparently still a demand for such detectors however, and Canary Wireless has recently launched a second generation model of their Wi-Fi network detector witt he Hotspotter HS-20.

The HS-20 has some simple operation in a small package to pick up as many as 20 Wi-Fi networks at a time. A button on the side turns on the device and it immediately starts scanning for networks. After a few seconds it will display a list of networks that it found, including those that are secure and/or have no SSID broadcasted.

Cheetah Advanced Technologies, a UK developer of speed trap detection equipment, is introducing to American markets a rather interesting speed camera & red-light camera detector which looks like a rear view mirror. The Cheetah GPSmirror is priced at around $300.

The GPSmirror has a preloaded database of red-light and speed cameras in its memory. It warns drivers through voice, tone and visual warnings when they are approaching such a camera. The database can be updated via downloads. This mirror is also designed to give you advisory speed limit announcements and overspeed alerts.

We first gave you a heads up last September about Nokia’s new revolutionary design for the N95 handheld multimedia computer/phone; now the company has informed us that it’s begun to ship to European, Asian and Middle Eastern stores and will roll out everywhere else in about two weeks time. The 22 mm thickness design of the N95 is different in that it slides open two different ways depending on what you want to do with it. One direction reveals the keys for making a call; slide the other direction and you get another …