Geocaching is a worldwide hide and seek treasure hunt game. It allows people to hide a cache, which is nothing more than a box full of clever trinkets, and share the Latitude and Longitude of the cache on a website. There are several websites out there that do this including GeoCaching.com and OpenCaching.com. One of the must enjoyable types of caches are multi-caches that allow you to go from one point to another along a preset route. Each cache then has the coordinates for another cache, but it can be challenging to get the coordinates entered into your device correctly. If you have a high end Garmin GPS unit you can now do more. The Garmin Chirp is a small wireless device that will communicate with other GPS devices. Currently it only works with Garmin GPS units, and one app on the Apple App Store: GeoBeacon There are admittedly very limited and specific applications for this, but the reason I wanted to share this is because of the potential it might have. Imagine that within the next year or two you could place these beacons around sites you wanted students to go to and to learn things. You could create a field trip that they could get your specific tips and tricks for. There are several different ways two device can communicate like this and it could be that in the very near future the same technology that allows Android users to checkout at the grocery store with their Google Wallet by waving their phone at the cash register might allow mobile devices to act as a cache register.
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