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Quoted from International Mining

“Today (June 10) at the MassMin conference in Lulea, Sweden, Greg Baiden of Laurentian University, Canada (also Chief Technology Officer of Penguin Automated Systems) presented on a newly developed Underground Positioning System (UPS). The UPS has a range of some 2 km through rock and accuracy better than 3%. Mine trials are to be undertaken later this year and in 2009. Going forward, this has tremendous potential for finding trapped miners, for equipment mechanisation and mine wide asset management. The system employs VLF and would rely on a network of ’satellites’ placed to surround an orebody or underground workings.”

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At first glance the Magellan Triton looks like a GPS force that can throw some serious weight around.

The Triton isn’t just showing off a tough exterior - it really is built with rubber armoring, impact resistant plastic and a water resistant seal so you won’t have to worry when you take this electronic device outside where it’s actually supposed to be used.

The Triton has a “becoming standard equipment on all electronic devices” 2.5″ touch screen, uses SD Card storage and the famous SiRF Star III GPS chip. Even though it’s doubtable you’ll ever have 20 satellites available to you the SiRF Star III GPS chip boasts 20 channels with WAAS/EGNOS real-time correction.

We like the fact that Magellan decided to give this GPS a 2MP digital camera - now we’re getting somewhere but here’s where Magellan really screwed themselves. This built in digital camera does NOT allow you to geo-tag your photos.

Talk about a failure on the digital camera part - Sorry Magellan you’re STILL way behind.