+Dan_Edwards Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 Found this article on Geekzone from a story on Slashdot. Anyway this sounds like a great Geocaching GPS. Projecting waypoints, no problem with laser guided assist. Pocket PC built in for Paperless cache reports. Compass, digital camera, and inclinometer all intergrated together. Now to find out if its a jack of all trades and master of none. The software is what will make or break this thing. Quote Link to comment
+SBPhishy Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 The design actually doesnt look that bad. It has to be the jack of all trades though. I'm not a big fan of everything-in-one gadgets. But looks neato though. Quote Link to comment
+bigeddy Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 What, no phone to log the cache from the field? For the gadget inclined, the Palm Treo 600 smart-phone can take a GPS antenna (serial or SD card) to provide phone, PDA, camera and GPS receiver. Quote Link to comment
+Dan_Edwards Posted February 12, 2004 Author Share Posted February 12, 2004 What, no phone to log the cache from the field? For the gadget inclined, the Palm Treo 600 smart-phone can take a GPS antenna (serial or SD card) to provide phone, PDA, camera and GPS receiver. Ya but the Palm software I have tried sucks for the most part. Geoniche is a great GPS, but I could not take the tracks into TopoUSA, and I would have to stop recording a track if I wanted to use XMap. Xmap was a ok mapping program, and could record a track you could bring to TopoUSA but it was slow, buggy, and sucked when you got close to the cache. Now this GPS with a Bluetooth phone could do everything a Treo could and probably be a lot more compatible with GPS software. I am just guessing there though. Maybe it does not even have NEMA output. Besides... It has a friken laser beam coming out of its forehead... How can you beat that Quote Link to comment
+Halden Posted February 12, 2004 Share Posted February 12, 2004 How about the 1 KG weight? That's a little hefty. Quote Link to comment
+Green Toad Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 Ike also costs NZ$12,000. I don't know what the conversion is, but that's expensive! Quote Link to comment
+Brian - Team A.I. Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 I was out hiking with a cacher last year talking about a GPS that would perform this very function, with laser-assistance to perform exact waypoint projection. How cool to see one out there that does it. But I'll be purchasing a 60CS long before I buy one of those suckers.. After conversion, it comes out to: 8,440.91 USD United States Dollars A little rich for me, but a great toy for someone who has almost everything. Quote Link to comment
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