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Instruments, the New Generation
By Ben Ellison | Posted June 2008 | Add a CommentDo you like the time on your wrist expressed with traditional hands or in digital form? Or has your cellphone display supplanted wrist watches altogether? In a world of ever-increasing man-machine interfaces (MMI), we get some choices and thus develop our own preferred MMI styles. Yes, even a portable timepiece is a machine, likely the first you ever interfaced with, and if thinking of one as
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Fusion Marine Stereo
By Ben Ellison | Posted June 2008 | Add a CommentFusion Marine Stereo MS IP500Is there a man-machine interface as successful as the iPod’s? And don’t they make huge sense on a boat, letting you take your whole music collection—plus audiobooks, podcasts, and more—aboard in
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Alpine Marine Stereo
By Ben Ellison | Posted June 2008 | Add a CommentAlpine Marine iDA-X100M Marine Digital Media ReceiverRenowned car audio innovator Alpine Electronics also has a new iPod-friendly marine stereo for your consideration. In fact, the company claims a special relationship with Apple as part of the reason why the iDA-X100M Marine Digital Media Receiver sports a "super fast" USB iPod
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KEP Marine Monitors
By Ben Ellison | Posted June 2008 | Add a CommentKEP Marine MonitorsKEP Marine is likely one of the largest and most accomplished marine electronics companies you've probably never heard of, though you may have marveled at one of its super-bright monitors with a more familiar brand name on it. KEP also directly markets its own line of In-Sight displays ranging from 12-inch to
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Raymarine E Series V4
By Ben Ellison | Posted June 2008 | Add a CommentRaymarine E Series V4 Multifunction Navigation Display SoftwareIt was pure luck that my April column on maintenance ("Servicing the Circuitry") illustrated how easy it is to update a Raymarine E-Series; then along came V4, a free firmware upgrade
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Down to the Wire
By Ben Ellison | Posted May 2008 | Add a CommentA feature about data networking wires and related minutia? I can almost feel fingers flipping the page. But wait! If you're looking at new boats or are about to upgrade your electronics, you'll likely get more satisfying results if you shop with some knowledge of the National Marine Electronics Association's (NMEA) 2000 nitty
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Jeppesen Marine Nobeltec Max Pro
By Ben Ellison | Posted May 2008 | Add a CommentJeppesen Marine Nobeltec Max ProWhen Jeppesen Marine took C-Map under its wing early last year, a much-anticipated consequence was the melding of Nobeltec navigation software (NSS) with C-Map’s top-of-the-line Max Pro cartography. They’re here and forever memorialized in new product names VNS Max Pro and Admiral Max Pro, priced
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ActiveCaptain Mobile
By Ben Ellison | Posted May 2008 | Add a CommentActiveCaptain MobileLast year when I lamented on the dismal state of digital chart Point of Interest info, an exciting possible cure was the brand-new ActiveCaptain, a free Web service
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Raymarine SmartPilot X Series
By Ben Ellison | Posted May 2008 | Add a CommentRaymarine SmartPilot X SeriesRaymarine is refreshing its entire autopilot line into the SmartPilot X (SPX) Series. All SPX course computers include rate gyros for better performance and use SeaTalkNG (a.k.a. STng or NMEA 2000) interfacing for easier installation and sensor sharing. The primary ST70 control head matches the nifty
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Pocket Navigation
By Ben Ellison | Posted May 2008 | Add a CommentIf Mae West were alive, her famously bawdy trademark line might go like this: "Hello there, sailor. Is that a WAAS GPS AIO PND loaded with a continent's worth of nautical, street, topo, and photo cartography and several hundred thousand POIs in your pocket...or are you just happy to see me?" To which a sorry geek like me might squeak back, "Pardon, Ms. West, no time for flirting; I've got gadgets
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