Imagine a GPS unit small enough to fit on your wrist. It’d be perfect for outdoor activities.
Watchmaker Suunto has just unveiled the X10, billed as the smallest and lightest wrist-mounted GPS unit on the market.  The new wrist-sized device will set you back $599 this holiday season.
Recently awarded a “Best of Adventure Gear” 2009 nod from National Geographic Adventure Magazine, this outdoor hands-free tool is compatible with mapping services such as Google Earth (export your journey and view it with 3D satellite imagery) and National Geographic Topo, the latter of which also lets you download a predetermined route from a PC to the X10 via USB before setting out to your destination. The GPS unit will show direction, altitude, speed, barometer pressure, remaining distance (to destination or preselected waypoints), distance traveled and estimated time of arrival.
When it’s time to call it a day, a “Find Home” option will guide you back to your starting point, while “Track Back” takes you back through each waypoint. The X10 can store up to 50 routes or 500 waypoints.
Available in two colors, other features of the X10 include time, stopwatch, thermometer and digital compass.
This will soon be made obsolete by the direct neural interface, complete with Wi-Fi and GPS locator chip.
Meanwhile, you’ll be able to ask the question “What place you got?”
I’m still waiting for the GPS Watch capable of displaying full-color maps with voice turn-by-turn directions that displays current weather conditions and live weather radar and also updates your Twitter location and status on-the-fly all the size of a standard Casio watch you’d buy at Wal-mart.
Got a feeling we’re still a little ways off from that.