+The Cheeseheads Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Would you buy a Playstation Portable if you could use it for geocaching? From a Slashdot article about Sony's Playstation keynote earlier today: PSP is their fastest growing format. They're lowering the prices on PSP dev tools, having shipped over thousands worldwide. Internet browser will be a focus, with a Flash functionality. A video camera is also upcoming, for a VOIP videophone/Wifi videophone. He hopes 'communication-based games' also becomes a powerful part of the PSP story. GPS receiver is also upcoming. He's hoping for some geocaching-style games, along with the more obvious uses. The camera and GPS are both going to be coming out in the fall, around late Sept/Early Oct. It would be interesting to find caches using a PSP, then head over to the nearest Panera and hop on their WiFi to log your finds before heading back out. Along with the regular game, movie, and music functionality, I might be interested... Quote Link to comment
+Milbank Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 No, they are to big for me. Quote Link to comment
+markp99 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 No, they are to big for me. I would really love to see a fully functional GPS implemented in the PSP. The beautiful display would be simply amazing and worth the larger form factor. The PSP could also server as a good size auto-GPS unit. I'd have to see what the extra GPS hardware would do to form factor. Quote Link to comment
+Coastiegirl04 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I think its cool that they are working on that.. to put a GPS in PSP but it just seems like too many toys in one tiny machine.. Quote Link to comment
+Vanillahip Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Not to mention easy paperless caching due to the fact that you can surf the web on your PSP. (I haven't tried to save any pages for offline viewing though...can we do that?) Quote Link to comment
+headybrew Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 That would ROCK! Think of all the cool games they could program. You could download entire "adventures" into it, having to go to certain places at certain times to score, which would cause you to meet up with other people playing the same game... You exchange code words or something and see who can get the most code words by meeting the most other psp cachers... Then again, I'm sure you could think up something like that with regulare gps's. hmm... Still, that would ROCK! Quote Link to comment
+Cache Heads Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Kiddo has a PSP and when we car cache (it's too fragile for hiking) we export the HTML files through GSAK, load them on to the PSP's memory stick and let him follow along and read us the descriptions/past logs. It actually works really well. GSAK organizes the pages so you can search by different methods from one central home page on the PSP's browser and it looks just like it does in GSAK's preview window. Kiddo loves it ! Quote Link to comment
+caderoux Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Just need Bluetooth (and support). I use a BT GPS with my Pocket PC - it's wonderful. GPS stays in a pocket in my bag. Quote Link to comment
+One of the Texas Vikings Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Sorry, I thought that said: Geocaching with ESP..... I could use the help ! Quote Link to comment
dunderhead Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 What is all this stuff? Not as reliable as my sextant, chronometer, compass, dead reckoning and charts I'll wager. Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 No, they are to big for me. Never seen an explorist XL eh? Quote Link to comment
+DocDiTTo Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 The idea of merging a GPS with a video game could be pretty cool.. imagine a game like "Pacman" where you had to run around your yard to avaoid the ghosts, rather than twiddle a joystick! No longer would video games and couch potatos go hand in hand! Actually, what might be neat (and probably easier to do) would be to write an app for a PDA which reads your current location, compares it to a cache location, and tells you to go "Right left, straight" etc in order to match up the coords. In that way, special caches could be set up for completely blind folks. Hmm... lots of possibilities.... but would I go out an buy a PSP just for caching? Probably not. Quote Link to comment
+VegasCacheHounds Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I was all excited about the PSP before they came out, but once I saw how big they are I lost interest. Add the GPS feature and I might reconsider. but likely not. Of course, any functioning GPSr would be better than what I've got now Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Between the PSP's size, price, and inherent breakability, I'll pass. Quote Link to comment
+blackjack65 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Actually, what might be neat (and probably easier to do) would be to write an app for a PDA which reads your current location, compares it to a cache location, and tells you to go "Right left, straight" etc in order to match up the coords. In that way, special caches could be set up for completely blind folks.Do you mean something like this:Trekker: A GPS system for the Blind and visually impaired Used like this? Geocaching: A "Treasured" Experience with GPS Quote Link to comment
+DocDiTTo Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Do you mean something like this: Trekker: A GPS system for the Blind and visually impaired Used like this? Geocaching: A "Treasured" Experience with GPS Yep. something like that. Quote Link to comment
+wandererrob Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 it just seems like too many toys in one tiny machine.. OH! Mind your tongue! Silence! Hey, if they make the PSP that multi-funstional, I'd consider getting one. The versatility for travelling alone would be worth it. You can already play games, watch movies and check your email on it. It's a little bulky, sure, but much less so than carrying a bag full of miscellaneous devices. Quote Link to comment
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