Here’s a nifty little gadget - this is a tiny GPS receiver that uses satellite signals to record your position and the current time.
Carry this around, and it will capture information about where you’ve been. Download the information to your PC using USB, and you can do clever things such as plot where you’ve been on top of Google Maps, or geo-tag photos with the location that the photos were taken. It can also be used with image services such as Flikr and Picaso.
This device is cheap, and pretty powerful… well worth considering if you own a digital camera, or you’re into biking, hiking or walking. We’ll be reviewing this in a future show. More details and a review here: i-gotU GPS Tracker review
August 16th, 2008 at 2:31 am
But can you get drivers or software for it for Linux?
September 8th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
This is a fantastic little gadget.
September 18th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
@Paul, It doesn’t look like it right now, although the next model up from this one uses Bluetooth, so you might be able to do more funky stuff with it.
Maplin currently have a £20 discount on these, so I’ll be picking one up tonight :)
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
This is a brilliant device the only negative points that I have found is that it is often difficult to see the LEDs in bright conditions so it is possible to return with no track as it was not locked, it is a good idea to make sure there is an initial lock while stationary as it does not like to lock while on the move.
The one improvement I would like to the desktop software is to be able to schedule for more than a week it would then be possible to programme it to turn off during flights and at night for the whole duration of a holiday and not have to touch it again except to recharge occasionally as it will track 16000 points setting it at 2 minute points will give at least 3 weeks of tracking, it does split routs at the 6000 point but this is no problem.