Bluetooth Binos Anyone? (1 Viewer)

pete_gamby

Birds? What Birds?!

• Dec 10, 2012

• #1

Had to happen some time Some inventive fellows in Taiwan have come up with a way to connect your Smartphone to your binos...

http://www.originator-tech.com/Products.html

Not sure about the choice of colours...!

Enjoy!

Cheers, Pete

 

FrankD

Well-known member

• Dec 10, 2012

• #2

Oh the ergonomics are to die for!

Brock should have no problem getting his meaty paws wrapped around this open bridge design.

 

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ceasar

Well-known member

• Dec 10, 2012

• #3

FrankD said:

Oh the ergonomics are to die for!

Brock should have no problem getting his meaty paws wrapped around this open bridge design.

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But will they fit his deep set eyes?:smoke: And that focus wheel might require that he get a nose job too!

Bob

 

looksharp65

Well-known member

• Dec 10, 2012

• #4

I had this idea a while ago. If the binoculars or binoculars/smartphone system:

1) Knows its own position by GPS
2) Can identify the direction the binoculars are directed towards
3) Can use information from the focus wheel to determine the distance to the object in focus (although this requires that the user is emmetropic or uses spectacles

they could possibly determine the GPS coordinates of the object.

 

Surveyor

The more I understand, the more I understand why I

• Dec 10, 2012

• #5

Hello Lars;

Old idea, look at the the Vectronix system. Vectronix must have bought this system from Leica because the one I have is the Leica Vector, had it since about 2000 and used it with the Leica GS20 GPS for route recon before survey started. Mine only has 4 km range vs. the newer versions 25 km.

http://www.vectronix.ch/userupload/515_VECTOR_brochure_EN.pdf

 

looksharp65

Well-known member

• Dec 10, 2012

• #6

Surveyor said:

Hello Lars;

Old idea, look at the the Vectronix system. Vectronix must have bought this system from Leica because the one I have is the Leica Vector, had it since about 2000 and used it with the Leica GS20 GPS for route recon before survey started. Mine only has 4 km range vs. the newer versions 25 km.

http://www.vectronix.ch/userupload/515_VECTOR_brochure_EN.pdf

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|>| Feeling a little silly now :-O It happens all the time!

 

Steve C

Well-known member

• Dec 11, 2012

• #7

Now that Ron mentions it, I do remember seeing some stuff on the Leica Vector some time ago. I have the notion that the standard "glass inside the chassis" binocular may have gotten as good optically as it may need to get for normal human eyes. Smartphone technology is also light years advances over what it was ten years ago too. Same with GPS and laser technology.

We already have very good laser rangefinder equipped binoculars. So it seems like pairing that with a bluetooth connection to a smartphone or GPS unit, or other function, is a reasonably logical next step. It seems like it would have some serious usages in certain survey and other geolocation applications.