The Bushnell BackTrack serves a simple, but important function. It allows users to mark a spot, digitally and not with bodily fluids of course, and then guides that person back to the original location. Sure, it’s a dumbed down flavor of GPS, but with an unintimidating feel ’bout it. The display is backlit and the whole device is weather resistant so you don’t have to worry ’bout rain when you’re trying to backtrack. (clever name btw) The little guy is available in either gray/orange, pink/grey, tech grey, or green/camo variants and retails for $73.95 from Bushnell or $69 from Amazon
via OhGizmo
I could see this being a very useful emergency device for casual hikers. It’s cheap enough, it seems like it would be easy to use, and it’s not trying to be the All-in-One-Mapping-GPS that most people wouldn’t bother taking on a day hike. But it doesn’t get a very good review on Amazon so far, and in order for it to be useful it actually needs to work as described.
I want one of these but for scuba. dam you weak GPS penetration :).
That’s a nice gadget right there. Add support for multiple points and I’m sold.
Reminds me of objective pointers in computer games.