Lost hikers and outdoorsmen will soon have yet another arrow to add to their navigational quivers, now that Garmin has decided to upgrade its eTrex line of GPS handhelds. The refresh, announced this ...

OLATHE, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, today announced chirp, a unique wireless beacon designed ...

Garmin’s $23 pet rock “Chirp” can last up to a year in the wilderness as it records the number of people who stumble across its coordinates. It’s for the more adventurous types, who love nothing more ...

Nearly everyone has heard of geotagging. That's when you embed GPS coordinates into an image or video in order to plot them on a map and recognize where a given image or video was taken. But ...

Have you ever heard of "caching?" You probably have, but you may assume we're simply talking about the caching of files, or perhaps an L2 cache on a CPU. But when speaking about GPS units and outdoor ...

I use the Garmin eTrex 10 Worldwide Handheld GPS Navigator with my students—though it is a bit more expensive than the Geomate Jr. Geocaching GPS. Most geocaching is done in groups, so regardless of ...

The Garmin eTrex 10 GPS certainly isn’t a new model from Garmin, but it has a variety of points that one of the best hiking GPS systems for the occasional user. Indeed, its combination of low price, ...

I guess this thread is about a tiny, tiny niche, but hopefully some people have something to say. I recently got into Geocaching. I currently use the Windows Phone 7 app, but it's lacking in some ...

Dave Grenewetzki, 52, was on bended knee, rooting through bushes in downtown San Rafael, and eliciting bewildered looks from nearby beauty-school students. With a global positioning system unit in one ...