She nods in approval to his requests, and indicates that, by selecting the items, a tracking beacon should guide him to their locations, within the hoard. Sure enough, when he chooses them from the menu, a small glowing orb leaps from the PDA, and begins traveling through the treasure piles, always stays a few feet ahead of him, until it reaches the object he indicated.<br/><br/>The device has also clearly been modified; not only does it, in fact, have an option to send messages, though not direct communication, it can also receive basic voice commands, and answer simple queries. It's not terribly intelligent, but it does seem to understand intention to some degree. It can also provide a map of a region, with an indicator for his current location, though it's a fairly broad-view map. Finally, it includes a translation program, allowing spoken words to be recorded, and played back in one of twenty different languages.