The Meade MySky (and similarly, the Celestron Scout) is a celestial locator; you can aim it at a star or panet, and MySky will identify it. Or, you can enter a star or planet and MySky will point you to its location in the sky. I found this very helpful in my early LX200 days, when trying to find alignment stars (and not knowing the sky that well). The MySky uses a combination of precise time and location - from internal GPS, or entered by the user - as well as compass and gyro (I assume), to know where it is aiming in space.

The MySky has great educational potential (I wish I had one when I was a kid ...) - there is a large number of videos that explain the various objects that play on the miniature screen - but they're quite watchable. Unfortunately, I wasn't really interested in most of those, so only watched a few, and mostly used the MySky as a tool to find alignment stars for the LX200.

This is a really neat technology! Unfortunately, the quality of the MySky was an issue (not that you should expect much from a $200 product that incorporates so much technology) - the first one failed, as the on/off button stuck - which Meade claimed was a common problem. They replaced it with a second version, which had less capabilities than the first version (more automatic, and provided less of a manual calibration approach). Now, the second one seems to have failed, also. Overall, the MySky was fun to play with, but wasn't quite accurate enough to be sure that the star pointed-to was correctly identified.

The MySky is also capable of being connected directly (with the proper cable) to an LX200 scope. It can then drive the scope to the object at which the MySky is pointing. Again, this is really neat technology that provides incredible possibilities ... if it worked as well as it should. As the accuracy really isn't good enough for more than very rough pointing, the MySky ended-up being more of a curiosity and fun toy than an aid to a serious astronomical system.