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Comment author: gwern 07 June 2015 12:32:06AM 2 points [-]

Wearing a vibrating compass anklet for a week. It improved my navigational skills tremendously.

I bought a NorthPaw last year but got very little out of it. I wondered if perhaps my local environment is simply not navigationally challenging enough; what sort of place were you using your haptic compass?

Comment author: TezlaKoil 08 June 2015 10:19:18PM 0 points [-]

Mainly in the city of Edinburgh, HW campus and the Lothians. It worked well inside college buildings with non-trivial layouts as well.

Important question: do you usually travel by car? I can't drive, so my main methods of transportation were public transport and walking.