More tech & Geotagging

The weather is cold which means I look up cool tech stuff that we plan to use on our trip.

First of which is called Eye-Fi. It's a SD memory card that goes in your digital camera and stores photographs and videos... but with a twist. These awesome things have inbuilt WiFi to enable you to sync your photos/videos to your PC without ever connecting a cable.
Sure, seems lazy, but there is a few more advantages.
-You never run out of storage as it syncs to your PC when its on. Once it has copied all the photos, it marks them as 'copied' which means as you start to run low on space on the SD card, it will clear the oldest copied photos off the card.
-Because we copy our photos and videos each day, it means lots of plugging and unplugging which I fear will wear out the ports and reduce the reliability of the seals that cover them.

One cool things they do (but we won't) is the ability to ROUGHLY geotag your photos. To those new to geotagging, the idea is to store the location the photo was shot, alongside the photograph which you can use later to locate it on a map. Awesome idea, however Eye-Fi's approach is way off the mark. It identifies nearby wifi hotspots and assumes your location from there. In real world tests in metropolitan areas (best case) the results are horrible, more oftern being 4-5 blocks wrong. To some people, knowing what city they were in when they took a photo might be enough, but I reckon this is hopeless. Where we travel, there will be no wifi for weeks, let alone one it knows the location of! I suspect it would be better to have no location than one thats wrong.

Eye-Fi cards have the ability to automatically upload photographs at public WiFi hot spots - cool idea, but I doubt it will be used.

Another clever feature for the pho-togs is 'Direct Shooting' - Allowing you to use large display such as a laptop or iPad to display your photo right after your shot was taken. Again, not that handy for us, but would be great for professionals.

GPS Geotagger

For years I thought it would be handy to have photos and videos embedded with location information, but never really thought how it would be possible. Here is a better solution - this video says it better than I can:


Not only is this going to have the obvious advantage of allowing us to geotag our photos and videos, but it will be great to see a high resolution track of our journey. Because we are using PC software for navigation, a convenient side effect is this will track our progress while we're driving, but this device will provide insight into our path when we are outside the car.
Naturally I want the yellow one, it's slightly smaller, but the black one has slightly longer battery life - it's going to be a hard call.

 Those pictures side by side look about to scale, the yellow one thinner but longer.

These beauties have a motion/vibration sensor that has them turn off when the're still, saving battery power.

Sony Camera:

Well, what can I say - this thing is awesome.

-NATIVE GEOTAGGING!
-Wide angle lens - surprisingly this is a big deal
-5.1 sound - Can you imagine how immersive it will be reviewing footage with 5.1 sound. Changing a tyre on the side of a road... talking in the foreground, cars driving on gravel in the background. It'll be awesome.
-240GB HDD or SSD - no tapes.
-SD Card port - Allows you to record to SD card - which means you can use the Eye-Fi!

That's about all I can think of now. Getting too hungry to think.