SlashScope

Rick Callahan, writing for the Associated Press, posts a "hands-on" review of the the Celestron SkyScout, a personal planetarium which uses GPS technology to help identify any visible object in the sky ' The new SkyScout from Celestron LLC of Torrance aims to give stargazers their celestial bearings: Simply point the camcorder-sized gadget at a star, and it identifies what's in sight. The star's statistics appear on a small screen, and users can plug in earphones to hear a soothing voice describe what they're looking at. Weighing about a pound, the $399 SkyScout isn't a telescope. It's a no-magnification spotting device that harnesses global-positioning-system technology and two sensors -- one to detect the Earth's magnetic field, the other, its gravitational field -- to identify what it's being pointed at.'