Hi everyone.
I'm now going to open up a can of worms....
It's about watches... or more pricesly,- watch-like gizmoes that goes around your wrist, and can tell you everything about the world that you otherwise could tell from at decent map, compas and commen sense.
Now, I like toys... especially big boys toys... and I'm not taking cars and girls in allmost nothing... (although I don't dislike that at all...) But in this case I'm talking about a "wristtop computer" Altimeter, Barometric, compas, and enough bells and wistles to win first bell-and-wistle at an bell and wistle convention.
I forsee two main arguments - the "purists" ( no offence intended) who will argue that this thing will come between them and nature - that the experience will be deminished by artificial gizmoes, that proberly will break or run out of battery at the worst moment...
And the gizmo-inclined,- (no offence intended) who can't get enough of these thinges...
I actually fell like standing with a leg in both camps, I think that a gizmo like this will be like a bit of a distraction, that will hinder the process of shetting the "urban moden...persona..." and getting in tune with nature... and this of course being a lot of the reason I get out there...
On the other hand, the shetting-process always takes 2-3 days and my "urban modern persona" needs me to be back before that.. So out on a small trip I might enjoy looking to my wrist, and get some info about hight, and sunup/down, or barometric changes. I know I can get this by looking up and around, but some times it's nice just to walk, with no thoughts to cloud formation, time of day, or anything else, and just leave the details to someone else....
So- I imagine me going across, say Hadangervidda in Norway, or Cairn Gorms in Scotland, out for a long week, fairly goal-oriented in the sense that I need to be somewhere in 5 days, but still "shetting the urban ....." stuff.
Back in my mind will be the knowedge that the info I need to get exact location can be optained by cross referencing compas, map, subconcious, (it's allways on, you know, and I gotten lost enough times that I usually keep track of the sun, winddirection, landmarks, generell mapfeatures etc, without thinking about it) (although trusting this "6 sense" absolutly have lead me into even more trubble, than I care to think about
)
The gizmo will be giving me warning if a storm comes, and the compas will serve as a backup incase i loose main compas.
I allways navigate by map/compas, and try to keep track of weather, but a little help isn't so bad?
I will ofcourse survive without this thing, but on the other hand ( or wist) it might be fun to use and even enhance the experience...
So,- am I the only one who might take something basicly redundant with me outthere, or are we more in this category?
/martin
P.s pardon any spellingerrors... I'm a dane....
I'm now going to open up a can of worms....
It's about watches... or more pricesly,- watch-like gizmoes that goes around your wrist, and can tell you everything about the world that you otherwise could tell from at decent map, compas and commen sense.
Now, I like toys... especially big boys toys... and I'm not taking cars and girls in allmost nothing... (although I don't dislike that at all...) But in this case I'm talking about a "wristtop computer" Altimeter, Barometric, compas, and enough bells and wistles to win first bell-and-wistle at an bell and wistle convention.
I forsee two main arguments - the "purists" ( no offence intended) who will argue that this thing will come between them and nature - that the experience will be deminished by artificial gizmoes, that proberly will break or run out of battery at the worst moment...
And the gizmo-inclined,- (no offence intended) who can't get enough of these thinges...
I actually fell like standing with a leg in both camps, I think that a gizmo like this will be like a bit of a distraction, that will hinder the process of shetting the "urban moden...persona..." and getting in tune with nature... and this of course being a lot of the reason I get out there...
On the other hand, the shetting-process always takes 2-3 days and my "urban modern persona" needs me to be back before that.. So out on a small trip I might enjoy looking to my wrist, and get some info about hight, and sunup/down, or barometric changes. I know I can get this by looking up and around, but some times it's nice just to walk, with no thoughts to cloud formation, time of day, or anything else, and just leave the details to someone else....
So- I imagine me going across, say Hadangervidda in Norway, or Cairn Gorms in Scotland, out for a long week, fairly goal-oriented in the sense that I need to be somewhere in 5 days, but still "shetting the urban
....." stuff.Back in my mind will be the knowedge that the info I need to get exact location can be optained by cross referencing compas, map, subconcious, (it's allways on, you know, and I gotten lost enough times that I usually keep track of the sun, winddirection, landmarks, generell mapfeatures etc, without thinking about it) (although trusting this "6 sense" absolutly have lead me into even more trubble, than I care to think about
)The gizmo will be giving me warning if a storm comes, and the compas will serve as a backup incase i loose main compas.
I allways navigate by map/compas, and try to keep track of weather, but a little help isn't so bad?
I will ofcourse survive without this thing, but on the other hand ( or wist) it might be fun to use and even enhance the experience...
So,- am I the only one who might take something basicly redundant with me outthere, or are we more in this category?
/martin
P.s pardon any spellingerrors... I'm a dane....
