Digital Technology for Digital Living.
March 14, 2005
Expedition Oz
Australia’s own Mick Stanic, Co-Founder of The Podcast Network, has started a blog “to bring you news on the gadgets and gizmos that can make spending time in the great outdoors just a little bit geeky”. You can find it at Expedition Oz and should be a fun look at some technology that’ll enhance the outdoor life. Check out on the first posts on Contact 3.0 packages to help every communications need when out in the wild. I’d call that Extreme Moblogging.
Imagine yourself in a tent, pitched on a wall in a high camp on Everest, or buried deep in a snow cave on Denali. Imagine yourself floating on a piece of ice in the Arctic Ocean, wind blowing and the ice screeching. Or, imagine yourself rowing an oversized bathtub all alone in the monstrous waves of the Atlantic ocean.
“They should see me now,” you think to yourself as you contemplate how and why you once again got yourself into this crazy situation. But these kinds of places do not allow for laptops and complicated transmission routines.
Instead, your pal picks up a tiny digital camera and snaps a picture of you from deep inside of his sleeping bag. He then digs out a small handheld device (PDA) and a handheld Sat phone slightly larger than a mobile phone. He makes some fast commands on the tiny screen of the PDA, jots down a few lines, and your photo along with a few of your thoughts are instantly shared with your mom and dad, your girlfriend/boyfriend and your pals back home. And out to the entire world if you wish.
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