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PDA Designed for the Great Outdoors

Posted by michael on from the watch-out-for-that-tree dept.

Paul Bawon writes "A company in UK called Node has developed the world's first consumer PDA designed for use specifically in outdoor environments. The device is fully waterproof to 3 meters, has a 8 hour battery life, built in DGPS receiver and 1 Gig of storage. Bluetooth and WiFi come as standard as does a touch screen and either a PocketPC or Linux operating system. I bumped into them at a tourism conference in Edinburgh where they were demo'ing the unit and I was impressed. It's smaller than a standard postcard."

2 of 257 comments (clear)

  1. Project: PDA by dexter+riley · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, but is it bear-proof?

  2. Re:I wonder what it can survive? by kayak334 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It looks like drinking in the morning might be a bigger problem. :)