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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 »
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 »
Games
Wii Exercise Bike Would Be Perfect For Paperboy
6:40AM Sean Fallon | An exercise bike peripheral for the Wii is nothing without a remake of Paperboy. More »
QOTD
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 »
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
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 »
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
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 »
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
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 »
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 »
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