Garmin Rino-GPS Show and Tell

"jspectre writes: "Garmin, makers of fine GPS products, has a sneak peek of their upcoming Rino (Radios Integrated with Navigation for the Outdoors). A new handheld combination of GPS and 2-way Radio using the common FRS spectrum. In addition to downloadable maps, trip planning, weighing 8.5oz and being waterproof you can "beam" your location to other Rino users while you talk to them. Your location will show up on their GPS display allowing you to navigate to each other. Expected availability, June 2002. Great fun for geocaching parties I'd think." [Slashdot]

"Canadians may soon be smuggling blank CDs across the border in an effort to avoid the high taxes that have been proposed for any recordable media that can be used to store music.

The tax, called the Private Copying Tariff and backed by the Copyright Board of Canada, is intended to compensate musicians for income lost when consumers copy music onto digital storage media.

'If this tax is passed, it will raise the prices on products that most businesses now use to store data,' said Joseph McCormick, a corporate law attorney. 'It's unfair to Canadian consumers and it's unfair to businesses. Not everyone with a CD-burner, a PDA or an external hard drive is a thief.' " [via bOingbOing]

Canada is also facing its own version of the DMCA debate.