exercise

Sports

Garmin FR60 Watch Is All About The Fitness

10:49AM Nick Broughall | Remember when watches just told the time? No, me neither. The latest watch coming out of Garmin’s factories – the FR60 – is a fitness freak’s wet dream in watch form. For $199, you get a watch with heart rate monitor, which tracks your efforts as you exercise. More »
Gadgets

Take A Virtual Tour Through Google Street View On A Stationary Bike

10:20AM Sean Fallon | Using a Vuzix headset, a laptop, Arduino and a bike sensor, Aki Mimoto was able to rig up his wife’s stationary bike to transport himself through a virtual Google Street View environment. More »
Sports

Mobia From Nautilus Is The iPod Of Treadmills

8:20AM Sean Fallon | The Mobia treadmill has a couple things going for it. Right off the bat you notice the clean and simple iPod-esque aesthetics from Frog Design. It also has an approach to fitness that could finally help get you in shape. More »
Gadgets

Philips DirectLife Turns Exercise Into A Status Bar

12:40AM Mark Wilson | The Philips DirectLife Activity Monitor may not look like more than a glorified waterproof accelerometer. Yet it might be brilliant. More »
QOTD

QOTD: Do You Prefer Running With or Without Gadgets?

11:30AM Nick Broughall | I saw this interview on The Daily Show a few weeks ago, where Jon Stewart interviews Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run a book about the Tarahumara Indians and their ability to run hundreds of kilometres using nothing but a pair of sandals. It’s a fascinating interview—you should definitely watch it—but it does lead to a very interesting question. Are all the gadgets we use for running—from the expensive shoes to the Nike+iPod system, pedometers and GPS trackers—really necessary? More »
Sports

Your Running Shoes Are Probably Bad For You

2:30PM Elly Hart | Shoes weren’t allowed in the house when I was a kid, so I didn’t bother wearing them much — it was an unacceptable waste of my play time to put them on, only to take them off again if I needed to go inside. More »
Sports

Hack Your Way To Better/Cheaper/Smarter Workouts

2:30PM Elly Hart | Losing the love handles, auntie arms, muffin top or cankles doesn’t have to be so hard. Make the most of your workouts with these tips. More »
QOTD

QOTD: What Gadgets Help You Exercise?

11:30AM Nick Broughall | Like it or not, exercise is an essential part of life. Well, a decent life, anyway. So to make all that hard work bearable, there are gadgets. More »
Music

Gyms Don’t Like iPod Nano’s Video Recording Inside Locker Rooms

3:40AM Jason Chen | Gyms already forbid people from use camera-equipped gadgets, like smartphones and Flip digital cameras inside locker rooms, since nobody wants their hairy junk posted onto the internet. But now you can add iPod Nanos to the list of no-no items. More »