But if you need your hands for other things, or simply don’t want to have to stop often to check a compass, you might want to try out something like this belt-mounted haptic feedback compass.

Earliest records show a spoon shaped compass made of lodestone or magnetite ore ... In a culture that placed extreme importance on reverence for ancestors, this remained an important tool well into ...

If you’re familiar with using a compass (the tool that points to magnetic north, not the one that makes circles) the concept of holding the device level makes sense. It must be level for the ...