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Sony has announced a new GPS device that detects your physical location around the world and also serves as a photo geolocation logger that works directly with Google's Picasa and Maps programs.
Many gadgets out there already use both of these technologies, but they're not often combined. The XactTrax, for example, details an object's location in an online map, and several cameras and SD cards, like the EyeFi, can tag photos with geolocation properties.
Of course, you can mash up a few of these programs and probably get close to the same level of location functionality.
Using its internal memory and software package, the GPS-CS3K allows you (and others online) to follow your own detailed tracks in Google Maps as you move along in your travels. It also can take the timestamp in any photo from an SD or MS card and match up its location to that online log. This means you can also geotag your videos and any media from phones.
Unfortunately for multi-task avoiders, it looks as if the gadget isn't wireless and you'll have to consistently plug it in. For those (like me) who take many pictures when traveling but take their time between computer visits (I haven't traveled with a laptop in a rural or jungly adventure yet), it could present a problem. At the least, it could be a lot of work back home making sure each time photo corresponds to the correct location in a detailed path.
This suspiciously Eve-looking (from Wall-E fame) device will be available in Japan this spring for the Yen equivalent of $190. We can expect to see it in the States in a few months.
Many gadgets out there already use both of these technologies, but they're not often combined. The XactTrax, for example, details an object's location in an online map, and several cameras and SD cards, like the EyeFi, can tag photos with geolocation properties.
Of course, you can mash up a few of these programs and probably get close to the same level of location functionality.
Using its internal memory and software package, the GPS-CS3K allows you (and others online) to follow your own detailed tracks in Google Maps as you move along in your travels. It also can take the timestamp in any photo from an SD or MS card and match up its location to that online log. This means you can also geotag your videos and any media from phones.
Unfortunately for multi-task avoiders, it looks as if the gadget isn't wireless and you'll have to consistently plug it in. For those (like me) who take many pictures when traveling but take their time between computer visits (I haven't traveled with a laptop in a rural or jungly adventure yet), it could present a problem. At the least, it could be a lot of work back home making sure each time photo corresponds to the correct location in a detailed path.
This suspiciously Eve-looking (from Wall-E fame) device will be available in Japan this spring for the Yen equivalent of $190. We can expect to see it in the States in a few months.
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It would look cooler if it had a bigger screen, a color screen, but it still looks cute and it actually does resemble EVE to some point. it looks sooo smoooothhhhhh! I WANNA TOUCH IT!!! XD
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