A Little English

December, 2008

GETTING LOST IN the woods builds charac­ter. Too bad future generations will never experience its joys thanks to gadgets like Suunto's X1O ($550, suunto.com), a "wrist-top computer" that features an altimeter, a barometer, a com­pass and, incredibly enough, GPS navigation. Load it with waypoints from your PC and it will communi­cate distance, speed and ETA info as you go. Plus it tracks your actual movements, which you can upload to a computer. If you still crave charac­ter, pack some...