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Map and compass
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Map and compass

A Silva Ranger 2.0 mirror compass with a 1:50,000 topographic map.

Amazon US, October 2026. Prices change.

A magnetised needle and a folded sheet of paper. Learn to use them once and they work everywhere, for ever, in any weather and with no signal. Silva has made them in Sweden since 1933.

Calm
Does not compete for your attention: no notifications, feeds or endless content. Does its job and gets out of the way.

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Survival checklist

What it survives, next to the smart one it replaces.
1
=SURVIVES(threat)Survives…
ThisMap and compass
What it replacesSmart oneGoogle Maps on a phone
2
Power cut
TRUE
FALSE
3
Wi-Fi goes down
TRUE
FALSE
4
The company switches off its servers
TRUE
FALSE
5
Someone tries to hack it
TRUE
FALSE
6
A firmware update goes wrong
TRUE
FALSE
7
Twenty years from now
TRUE
FALSE
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=COUNTIF(TRUE)Total
6 of 66/6
0 of 60/6

The smart one is the Google Maps on a phone.

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Never loses signal. Never needs a charge.

Map and compass

$63
Calm
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An electric compass is just a compass with anxiety.

Map and compass$63
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