COMING SOON - the Complete SAS Survival Guide app for Apple iPhone.
Penned by none other than SAS survival instructor Lofty Wiseman, the SAS Survival Handbook is the biggest and best book on survival, translated into 18 different languages and selling over one million copies.
Soon you'll be able to carry this guide around with you at all times, to make sure you can survive in any situation or climate, with the SAS Survival Guide iApp!
Survival Guide Content:
Essentials Hunting Make Camp Polar and Mountains Desert and Tropics Sea and Coasts Wild Food Disasters First Aid
Added Features:
Video starring Lofty Wiseman Image Galleries Morse Code transmitter Checklists to make sure you are fully equipped. Quiz to test your survival knowledge Sun Compass - use if no GPS signal Lofty's Case Studies - surivival tales - perfect camp fire stories.
Lofty Wiseman served 27 years as a professional soldier with the British Special Air Services (S.A.S). After serving throughout the world he became the survival instructor to the SAS. It was his job to ensure that each and every member of the regiment could apply these skills tested in training and operations.
Great! You can survive until the iPhone battery runs out.....
I said the same thing on the other iphone app thread, but as someone pointed out, with things like power monkeys and the mophie thing, there isn't any need to run out of juice.
I just got the outdoorgb app on mine, which is absoloutely marvellous. Guys like satmap should really watch out.
Ermmm.... if you have a working iPhone, and network coverage, what use is a Morse Code transmitter?
Other than as a toy...?
Still it's about time books such as this embraced modern technology; I've long thought that electronic field guides would be very useful*, and allow flora and fauna to be identified with greater ease than with a book. Someguides are available like this, but they cost stupid amounts of money (e.g. £60 for the equivalent of a £6 book). And yet the 'printing and distribution cost' of electronic media is much less than for printed media.
* I even started writing one for my Psion, using its help system, about 15 years ago...
My Psion also had a Solar Compass. In fact, the Psion certainly led the way in 'Apps'. The most common extension for such things was indeed .app. On my Psion 5, the apps even come up with a grid of little icons, just like the iPhone/iTouch. The only thing it couldn't do (besides making phone calls...) was 'swish' through them.
Still it's about time books such as this embraced modern technology; I've long thought that electronic field guides would be very useful*, and allow flora and fauna to be identified with greater ease than with a book.
I could really do with an app that means you can point the lens of your camera phone at the flora / fauna and it'll tell you that it's a waffle-tailed plover or whatever rather than have to riffle through pages of book (hard or virtual) desperately trying to match up some smudgy picture with the feathered thing on the hill.
I said the same thing on the other iphone app thread, but as someone pointed out, with things like power monkeys and the mophie thing, there isn't any need to run out of juice.
