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"  It&amp;#039;s probably clich\u00E9d to say that, since the dawn of time, man has looked up to the heavens in awe and with a sense of mystery. But even in a day when Wikipedia might be able to tell you the size and location of countless stars\u2014even if you&amp;#039;ve graduated from elementary school\u2014chances are your knowledge of astronomy doesn&amp;#039;t go much further than &amp;quot;Saturn has rings.&amp;quot; Enter the Meade mySKY, a $400 device that essentially turns the sky into a universe-size, self-guided museum tour. The premise is simple, and amazingly cool (even if it&amp;#039;s not so amazingly useful): Hold the radar gun-looking device up to the stars and mySKY uses a combination of GPS, magnetic sensors and motion sensors to pick out which planet, star or constellation it&amp;#039;s pointing at. It can even point you in the right direction if you&amp;#039;re searching for something in particular. And like a brainy buddy, it uses a combination of audio, video, still photos and text to tell you more information about the object in question than you&amp;#039;d probably ever need to know. We&amp;#039;re not just talking simple stuff such as size and location, but esoteric information\u2014folklore and history. Now this isn&amp;#039;t the first device along these lines. About a year and a half ago, Celestron put out a toy called the SkyScout that more or less did the same thing. But the difference between these gadgets is like the difference between a book about the galaxy and a visit to a full-fledged planetarium. The SkyScout may have given you basic cosmic information, but by including a video and map-filled guide the galaxy, the mySKY trumps technologically.  And if you happen to own a Meade-made computerized telescope, you can use an optional cable to create some celestial synergy. For example, if you use the mySKY to search for Venus, it will tell your telescope exactly where to point to see it in the flesh. Currently, mySKY can hook you up with about 30,000 celestial objects, but that number is growing, and updates can be downloaded online and installed on the device using a standard SD memory card. \u2014Seth Porges "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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