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Outside Magazine May 2004

Review: Digital Gear
I, Cyborg
With these intelligent devices, going digital is the fastest way to hotwire that great big analog world outside

By Seth Kelly

Intro | Weather Reporters & Go-Go Gadgets | Personal Trainers & Data Crunchers


	High Gear Summit (Mark Wiens)

PLEASE ACCEPT our condolences. It's not your fault you were born in the middle of a digital renaissance. Impossibly cool and eminently useful devices—like, say, a hybrid MP3 player/digicam/PDA—are everywhere, stretching to the horizon like a glittering, 256-color ocean. Your only recourse? Embrace the tech—and all the great data it serves up. We're talking multitasking wrist-top computers, virtual coaches, digital jukeboxes, weather stations, a ramble-friendly phone, even a unit that'll help you eat healthier. So hoist that analog anchor and set sail. The digital world has never been so ripe for exploration.

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