Monday, August 18, 2008

Phototrackr Pro: never miss a location


You are wandering in a forest or a dark place and you have got your powerful costly camera with you. You spot a wonderful sight and click your classic photo. The next time you meet your friends you show them this precious snap. They ask you whether you can show them the place. "Hell yes!", you say and you lead them to the spot. But, unfortunately you dont remember the exact location where you were earlier. Everything is lost, except the photo you have.


If you are involved in such situations regularly, then its time you get this cool gadget called the Phototrackr Pro.

The above embarassing situation could have been avoided if you had simply geotagged your photos. Geotagging is a method by which you mark your photos with the Longitude and Latitude of the place where the photo was taken. Plotted on a map, the trail of each and every photo which was taken can be seen. So, what should you do with this gadget? Just put this little pager-size gizmo into your backpack, or your pocket, and it silently keeps track of where you were all the time.
So, the next time you copy your photos to your computer, your PhotoTrackr Pro syncs up your time-stamps with the GPS coordinates it stored. This means that you can get to atleast a 5 metres radius of where the photo was taken.

Although, you need particularly need a reason to locate the locations where you took the photos, the knowledge of the exact place where you were when that shot was made is invaluable.

Features:
1) Track is done with the help of Google Earth
2) Supports all digital cameras that record date and time stamps
3) 4MB flash memory, 250k data records.
4) 16 channel GPS, -152dBm sensitivity
5) 45 second cold-start, 38 sec. warm start, 6 sec. hot start
6) Supports RAW, JPG tagging


Source: Thinkgeek

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