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TORRANCE, CA – January 3, 2008 — Building on the company’s tradition of innovation in the Global Positioning System (GPS) market, Pharos Science & Applications, Inc., a leading provider of location-based information and services, today introduced Pharos Trips & Pics, a geo-logger that enables consumers to record trip and photo locations and display them on a map quickly and easily. Trips & Pics works with any digital camera and provides an entirely new way for consumers to organize and share trip routes and photographs, track and improve athletic training times or generate precise trip statistics for personal or professional use. Trips & Pics will be available for $89.95 at major retail outlets in January.
“Over the years, Pharos has enabled consumers to add GPS capability to laptops, Pocket PCs and Smartphones, driving a wide variety of location-specific scenarios on those devices,” said James Oyang, Ph.D. President of Pharos Science & Applications. “We’re pleased to extend this expertise to the digital camera market and make precise location information more broadly available.”
By combining Pharos’ award winning iGPS-500 receiver with a sub-pocket-sized battery unit and easy to use geo-logging software, Trips & Pics offers a complete solution for GPS-enabled photo and trip tracking. To use Trips & Pics, a user simply carries the GPS receiver and battery unit along on a trip. At the end of the journey, the user removes the iGPS-500 from its sled, connects it to the personal computer via the supplied Universal Serial Bus (USB) cable, and follows download instructions. Step-by-step instructions allow the user to easily export digital photo or location files and display them on the map of choice, such as Microsoft Streets & Trips, Google Earth, Google Maps or Pharos’ own maps. Trips & Pics supports Geographic encoded Really Simple Syndication (GeoRSS) to allow blog sites to push location data feeds.
Trips & Pics software allows users to track time, location, heading and speed, and pinpoints locations on the map. Users can select variable logging intervals from one second up to five minutes. Further, the GPS receiver is controlled in the field with an on-off switch, meaning it logs only while activated, saving power and extending field life to more than 45 days. Trips & Pics portability and long battery life are of particular benefit to professionals such as real estate agents, geologists and news photographers. In the near future, Pharos will provide an upgrade option for customers who already own Microsoft Streets and Trips with GPS Locator or Pharos Bluetooth GPS and wish to add Trips & Pics functionality.
Technical Specifications
GPS Receiver: SiRFStarIII, 20-channel GPS receiver
Antenna: Built-in internal antenna
Battery: 1100mAh Li-Ion rechargeable/replaceable
Operation time: Approximately 24 hours
Weight: 2.12 ounces
Dimensions: 2.81” x 1.85” x 0.89”
