Garmin Adds Yoda, Darth Vader Voice Navigation To GPS Systems

Ever wish your GPS could direct your vehicle to Hoth?

Well, it can't, because Hoth doesn't exist; but if you have a new enough Garmin, you can now integrate "Star Wars" into it like never before.

Garmin has announced in a blog post that Yoda and Darth Vader voice navigation are now available as premium downloads in its online store. For $13, drivers can get their turn-by-turn instructions from either the Jedi Master or the Dark Lord of the Sith. Both downloads come with background images, too: the Yoda package features an X-wing starfigher, while Vader is bundled with his TIE advanced x1.

Lord Vader and Yoda are not the first fictional characters Garmin has offered for download: It still has Dora the Explorer and Spongebob Squarepants voices available for $6 as well. And there are many third party sites that offer celebrity and character voices for both Garmin and rival TomTom: Services like Spot It Out and NavTones have options like Burt Reynolds, KITT from Knight Rider, and, my personal favorite, Flavor Flav (uh, NSFW).

TomTom users have had Vader, Yoda, C-3PO and R2D2 available to them since 2010, so Garmin owners should be pretty excited that the Star Wars option is now theirs, too. Below, listen to both the Yoda and Darth Vader GPS voices from Garmin and decide whether or not you want these voices guiding you when you're lost in the middle of nowhere:

Comments

[Mister Grumpy]

01:28 AM on 08/05/2011

May your insurance policy be in force....................

[CJ40inWI]

12:34 AM on 08/05/2011

Hmmm lost you are.

[J242]

09:00 PM on 08/04/2011

I'd get a kick out of it for a few hours but I fear it would get old fast and fear is the path to the dark side... Or me just hitting mute making it pointless. lol

[Gene Clapper]

07:13 PM on 08/04/2011

Yawn. I'll be interested in (and will purchase) the upgrade when they do Flip Wilson's Geraldine character. Hell, any drag queen persona will suffice!

[L I Beral]

06:46 PM on 08/04/2011

This sounds like a terriffic way to waste money in lousy economic times. Not buy I will.

[abuckley23]

03:28 PM on 08/04/2011

Everytime you miss a directed turn does he say "I find your lack of faith disturbing"? Because that would rock!

[renniz]

02:40 PM on 08/04/2011

Unless the voices were recorded by the original actors, I'm out. We need James Earl Jones and Frank Oz! Also, how many ways to they say that you've reached your destination?

[geogirl]

04:49 PM on 08/04/2011

I was going to say the exact same thing!

[Richard Duffy]

01:08 PM on 08/04/2011

How great will this be? "Turn left you must!" "Use the brake Luke"

[foreign policy101]

11:57 AM on 08/04/2011

I think yoda would have me super confused talking backwards "Turn north after turning west you must"

[Rusteia]

11:54 AM on 08/04/2011

lost i will be, no more

[PlutocratsSuck]

11:28 AM on 08/04/2011

Well, it's a lot easier to understand than the Chewbacca version at least.

[J242]

08:59 PM on 08/04/2011

Brraaaaaaa! Mrraaa, woooooorrrrr.... What, you haven't caught up on your Wookie? lol

[coffeeparty]

09:14 AM on 08/04/2011

Lost you are, but the Force guide you it will.

[Stefan Dembowski]

08:47 AM on 08/04/2011

THAT"S AWESOME...
;)

[Chicookie]

08:15 AM on 08/04/2011

:D LOVE IT!

DARTH VADER RULES!

[RemoveTheGreedyOnes]

06:33 AM on 08/04/2011

LOL, will be installing it on my garmin today! :-)