Leica Geosystems has added some new distance meters to its Disto range.

Leica Disto D3a BT
New: Now the Leica DISTO™ D3a is also available with BLUETOOTH®. Due to this technology, measurement results can be wirelessly and accurately transferred to Pocket PCs and PCs. Furthermore, the Leica DISTO™ D3a BT is equipped with “Smart Horizontal Mode™, tilt sensor, calculation possibilities for rectangular and triangular areas, volumes, room dimensions and various types of Pythagoras functions.
1mm accuracy & 100m range, Smart Horizontal Mode with Bluetooth transfer.

Leica Disto DXT
New: The Leica DISTO™ DXT is the only laser distance meter, which is protected against jet water and is absolutely tight against dust – according to IP 65. This ensures, that it operates precisely, even at very unpleasant conditions.
1.5mm accuracy & 70m range, IP65 - robust, dust tight & protected against jets of water.

Pre-order now for delivery from June 2010.

NEW SE-2 GPS Modules

Ricoh Optimises 500SE GPS-Enabled Digital Camera.
Ricoh has launched major hardware and firmware enhancements to its 500SE GPS-ready camera. The new features provide improved GPS and data-collection capabilites.

To provide the best solution for GIS workflows that require quality images, the new SE-2 GPS moules for the 500SE provides superior GPS reception, capabilities and accuracy.  The SE-2 modules incorporate state-of-the-art GPS components into a small power-efficient, and ruggedised housing that attaches to the side of the 500SE, providing and all-in-one geo-imaging solution.

Unlike other GPS cameras and imaging devices with built-in GPS, the 500SE was designed with a modular approach, to ensure the camera's capabilities follow the rapid technology curve in the GPS industry.

The new SE-2 modules are available in two versions. The SE-2g provides GPS capability (replaces SE-1 module), while the SE-2c offers GPS plus a 3-axis compass for direction (azimuth) information (replaces SE-3 module).

Key advantages of the new SE-2 modules are its small form factor, significant power saving capabilities and faster GPS fix times, due to its new helix antenna. The SE-2g and SE-2c are also less expensive than the previous modules.

To further enhance the camera's data-collection capabilities, Ricoh has also announced a new firmware release for the 500SE that allows it to collect up to ten attributes of field data via an easy -to-use on-board data dictionary or by utilising the camera's barcode scanning feature. Additionally, an unlimited number of data dictionaries may be stored on the camera to provide a virtually unlimited amouint of data to embed into images as they are captured. This image meta-data becomes attribute data in GIS mapping applications such as ArcGIS. The new firmware also allows up to three attributes as well as GPS position, azimuth and UTC (satellite time) to be imprinted directly onto images as they are captured.

More information: http://www.mapc.com.au/ricoh-500se_71.html

BOSCH GTL3 TILE LASER

NEW Bosch GTL3 Tile Laser is now available in Australia.

    

The Tile Laser Level GTL3 Professional from Bosch is an ideal tool for laying floor & wall tiles. It is the only tile laser level on the market to project a third line in the 45 degree direction in addition to the two standard right-angled laser light beams. This makes not only parallel laying but also diagonal laying of the tiles very easy and quick. The Bosch GTL3 is also very useful when wallpapering, boarding and when laying stones or cables.

Bosch GTL3 Tile Laser Brochure (pdf)

LL4 Line Laser

NEW LL4 - automatic Line Laser from Bear Scientific
Bear Scientific have released a new 4 beam line laser.

• High Powered Bright Lines
• 2 Vertical (one @ 90°)
• 2 Horizontal
• 1 Down Dot (plumb)
• Cross on ceiling above plumb point +
• Off/on switch-locks compensator for transporting

Bear Surveying Accessories

New (mainly reduced) prices for Bear Surveying Accessories from 12/10/2008.
Approximately half of the Bear Surveying Accessories range has had a price reduction, particularly tribrachs, tribrach adapters and prisms. Please visit web site for new price list.

new models added to TDS/Trimble Nomad range

NEW TDS/Trimble Nomad 800x series

TDS has recently added the 800x series to the Nomad range of ruggedised handheld computers.
The 800x series come with GPRS for data transfer, and 2G flash memory.

All Nomad 800x series models come with;
128Mb RAM, 2G flash memory, integrated GPS, Bluetooth, 802.11g WiFi and GPRS modem.
800XC additionally has an integrated camera
800XL additionally has an integrated camera & integrated bar code scanner