Geocaching on the Gadget Show this evening

[+The Blorenges]

Was rather surprised to find Geocaching shown on the Gadget Show this evening (C5 8pm - repeated Tuesday on Fiver). It had Jason using the iPhone application to search for two caches hidden in the nearby woods. The 'caches' turned out to be a motorised skateboard and a mountain bike to help him evade capture from the 'baddies' who were chasing him. The item was about evading capture using 'hi tech' gadgets to either detect the enemy or to help you get away from them.....

They were at a paint ball center somewhere near Birmingham

 

So a new angle on cache containers perhaps??

 

Chris (MrB)

Edited February 22, 2010 by The Blorenges

[+tarmacjohn]

If somebody wants to put a mountain bike into a cache I will definately make the effort to be the FTF. Shouldn't be too difficult to spot the box

:P

[+Bear and Ragged]

"Took Bike, left empty film tub New Micro Cache. TFTC"

[airdefenderuk]

I hope he remembered the 'trade up or trade even' rule!

[+BareClawz]

I hope he remembered the 'trade up or trade even' rule!

He did say that normally something would be left in exchange which he'd do later. maybe he traded up and left a nice motor bike lol

 

Clawz

[+teamhillside]

Presumably they were just looking for an iPhone app which would locate things, and they came across the GC app and thought "that looks good" (which it did to be honest!).

 

Or maybe Jason (or, please please please Suzi!) are geocachers that we'll bump into one day?!? I can live in hope.....

 

Matt

[tiiiim]

In last weeks show (so the one previous to the one you're all talking about, if you get what I mean!) they voted the LAYAR application on the Android phones as the current best app for smartphones. Just thought I'd mention it as I'd seen the LAYAR thing mentioned before on these forums.

 

Anyway, back on topic...

 

Or maybe Jason (or, please please please Suzi!) [...] I can live in hope.....

 

I hear ya!

Edited February 23, 2010 by tiiiim

[+Delta68]

Caught the repeat last night.

 

It had very little to do with Geocaching as such; I presume they thought the iPhone app would make better TV than an old yellow Etrex

 

It was filmed at Trickley Coppice N52 35.450 W001 46.500

There's no pukka Geocaches there anyway...

 

 

 

 

Mark

Edited February 24, 2010 by Delta68

[+smstext]

i think the show has done damage to geocaching, people will now get the app go find a cache, find no bike there, take cache and then CO has to perform maintenance.

[+Bear and Ragged]

Caught the repeat last night.

 

It was filmed at Trickley Coppice N52 35.450 W001 46.500

Mark

Home turf?

Or inside knowledge?

 

I can usually spot locations around home. (Thats well off my patch!)

[+Delta68]

Home turf?

Or inside knowledge?

 

I can usually spot locations around home. (Thats well off my patch!)

 

"Nordley walk 6 (School View)" by The Washers (GC19GT3)

 

Showed up on the app as he showed the features so I knew they were in the Midlands

and then we recognised the road layout on the map screen page

[+Geo-Lana]

The Gadget Show introduced us to Geocaching so a big thanks to them for our new hobby.

 

..........and no mountain bikes as yet!

[+mintfresh]

It was a combination of this show and seeing an article on 'top 5 things to do with your GPS smarthphone' that got me into geocaching.

 

I agree that it maybe misrepresented it a bit, but then that was for the fun of the challenge they were doing. I was pretty realistic in my expectiations of real geocaching, as I'm sure most people would be!

 

Off to the Gadget Show live this year, maybe they'll have a cache there!