Touch-screen navigation
Maptech introduced a new product callled i3 which is basically a touch-screen interface to all important navigation data. It looks very good, and from a usability perspective this product is a nice example of...
Monthly Archive: March 2004
Portable Spy Station: Grundig Yacht Boy 400
Gizmodo is reporting on the Grundig Yacht Boy. Not because it is such a special or unique device, it isn’t, but because it can be used for things you might not have known about....
Compression and shipboard internet access
As long as real and flat-rate broadband satellite internet is not ubiquitous at sea, there will be a need to handle data traffic as efficient as possible. A detailed article in Digital Ship’s February...
Reefmaster Digital Dive Camera
For those of you that spent a lot of time in the Caribbean, this is a must have assuming that diving is your thing. The only thing I see it’s missing is an underwater...
Garmin Vs. Si-Tex
Review over at Powerboat Reports. In short the conclusion is that if you�ve got the space, consider Si-Tex�s Dynamic Duo, a plotter and sounder with separate screens that sells for about the same as...
Pocket PC with integrated GPS
The world’s first combined PocketPC with GPS is launched by Mitac. PDA Buyersguide has done an extensive review of the Mitac Mio 168. “Palm OS users who wanted an integrated GPS had their prayers...
Small-boat autopilots
Trailer Boats Magazine points out that an autopilot can be a very useful instrument to have on a small-boat. Now that’s probably nothing new, but the article explains how this can also be cost-effective,...
Radar on your mobile
Unfortunately not yet by using a tiny chip, but there a number of mobile internet services and applications available that will help you keep an eye on the weather when you are (planning to...
THE WEARABLE WEATHER STATION
Instruments are getting smaller and smaller. Combine that with all developments in the wireless area, and it won’t take long before we we stop using these LCD displays in the cockpit. “This fancy watch...
Little rugged PC
Stealth Computer has come out with a nice new small form rugged PC, named LittlePC. Perfect for an install in a small environment close to a navigation table. Specs look good, but I don’t...
