Showing posts with label Magellan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Magellan. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Chinese GPS Manufacturer BHCnav


BHCNav handheld GPS units

OpenCaching North America is an alternative Geocaching website, so this Geocaching product certainly fits the bill for a blog post. Above you see the four handheld GPS units suitable for Geocaching use manufactured by BHC Navigation Co., Ltd., of Zhongguancun, China (suburban Beijing), which is considered the Chinese Silicon Valley. There are rumors among GPS bloggers that BHC is interested in the North American market, and the popularity of Geocaching is the most likely reason for that. After all, they have an English language web site. Which has surprisingly few translation and grammar errors, although it is authored in HTML, uncommon in this day and age. By all accounts, this English website appeared in the later half of 2013. As of press time, we have not heard back from BHCnav as far as interviewing anyone from the company, or even (probably unrealistic) hopes of getting our hands on one of the units, but decided to do a post about them anyways, as we're confident very very few Geocachers knew of their existence. Who knows, if we hear back, there may be another post in the future.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

ROVE: New bluetooth gadget for instant Geocaching & trail sharing

ROVE, shown above, was brought to our attention here at the Opencaching North America blog on April 4th, 2013 via a press release on PRweb.com that came through on a Google news alert for the word Geocaching. ROVE is a GPS accessory that instantly shares trail maps across social networks like Twitter and Facebook. ROVE pulls multiple geocaches from geocaching.com right to your GPS, anywhere there is cellular or WiFi service. Advanced functionality includes tracking distance, time, elevation and speed for accurate trail maps.

ROVE is manufactured in Atlantic Canada by Sparkyard, Inc., a Dartmouth, Nova Scotia based IT start up company. The company has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise money for increasing production (please note per the Indiegogo site that there is an initial short production run, and ROVE can be ordered right now). We at the OCNA blog contacted Janet Wilson, Visual Designer for Sparkyard through their website at www.gorove.com, who was nice enough to set up an interview for us with Jonathan Layes, the inventor of ROVE, and founder of Sparkyard, Inc.