Air Desktop and geolocation?

Maybe I'm missing the obvious here, but is there any way for my desktop air application to grab location info from an attached/embedded GPS device.  It's easy enough for a mobile air app, or an in-browser flash app, but desktop air apps seem to be left out.  I can't use the Geolocation class since it's only supported on mobile devices, and I can't use htmlloader and javascript since geolocation is not supported in the embedded webkit version.
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