Nifty Gadget.

[swestrup]

I just came across a gadget called 'IKE' that has a built in range finder, compass, camera and GPS locator, as well as tilt, pitch and roll sensors. Basically, you point at something and hit the button, and IKE figures out what it looks like, and where in the world it is. I was thinking how useful this would be to archeologists, but then it struck me: It doesn't have inertial navigation. So, its only useful outside where it can recieve its GPS signals. If it also had inertial, you could get a position fix, and then take it down into a cave or pyramid or whatever, and it would still work.  Well, maybe in version 2.0