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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 »
Sports
Baseball King Balls Throw The Curveball For You
1:00AM Mark Wilson | I wasn’t blessed with a modicum of sports talent, but I can get behind this idea: cheating. More »
Gadgets
Gifts For Outdoorsy Geeks Not Averse To Sunshine Or Sweat
7:20AM Brian Lam | Your geek works in front of a computer all day, but yearns to be outside skiing or something. Here are some gift ideas for that type. (Also, this is a highly personal list, so please add ideas to the comments.) More »
Random Stuff
I Desperately Want This Video To Be Fake
5:20PM Rosa Golijan | This video shows Oli Lemieux practising on the trampoline wall of Cirque du Soleil and I’ve watched it twice already. I keep searching for clues that it’s just a cleverly edited video, that someone couldn’t possibly do these stunts. More »
Science
6:40AM Aimee Mullins | One Olympic swimmer has a D-cup breast size. From a physiological standpoint, she’s at a disadvantage to a swimmer who’s an A-cup. If she amputated her breasts to become more streamlined, would we consider her crazy, or worse, a cheater? More »
Racing On Carbon Fibre Legs: How Abled Should We Be?
6:40AM Aimee Mullins | One Olympic swimmer has a D-cup breast size. From a physiological standpoint, she’s at a disadvantage to a swimmer who’s an A-cup. If she amputated her breasts to become more streamlined, would we consider her crazy, or worse, a cheater? More »
Design
Japanese Putting Bra Lets You Golf Into Lingerie
8:40AM Adam Frucci | Sometimes, you just want to practice your putting. If you’re near a woman wearing Triumph’s new golf outfit and you can convince her to take it off, you can putt to your heart’s content. More »
Games
10:20PM Rosa Golijan | Definitely one for the things-I-wish-I-were-talented-enough-to-do category. These five guys are playing a way-bigger-than-life-size game of Guitar Hero by shooting soccer balls at sensors made from torn-apart Guitar Hero controllers. Oh and they’re scoring some pretty decent accuracy too. More »
DIY Soccer Ball-Controlled Guitar Hero Game
10:20PM Rosa Golijan | Definitely one for the things-I-wish-I-were-talented-enough-to-do category. These five guys are playing a way-bigger-than-life-size game of Guitar Hero by shooting soccer balls at sensors made from torn-apart Guitar Hero controllers. Oh and they’re scoring some pretty decent accuracy too. 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 »
Sports
Parahawking: Like Paragliding, With Hawks
3:20AM Jesus Diaz | This image seems straight out of a surrealistic Terry Gilliam film. The guy flying with the two giant birds is Scott Mason, who uses them to detect thermal currents to fly his paraglider through the skies of Nepal. Zoom in: More »
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