May 15
Cycling is a pretty big deal in the Bay Area, where it’s been said cycling is the new golf. So it should come as no surprise to learn that nearly every tech company from Twitter to Intuit has a dedicated …
May 13
We’ve got the gear you need for rolling to work safety and stylishly, whether you’re a hardcore racer, a seasoned commuter or an urban hipster with money to burn.
Mar 06
Before Google Glass got everyone excited, Recon instruments was putting a heads-up-display in alpine goggles. Judging from a teaser imag Recon sent us, it looks like the same technology will land on glasses soon
Feb 27
Patagonia has produced the first 1,000-fill-power down parka. It doesn’t come cheap, but if you’re looking for the ultimate cold-weather coat, this just might be it.
Dec 13
This Keypad watch represents the lopped-off numpad your laptop still feels every time it rains
It’s fairly clear these days that watches are meant for decoration, and not for traditional horological purposes. The biggest piece of evidence in favor of my hastily-invented theory is the watches themselves: They make it almost impossible to tell the time.
The Keypad watch amply demonstrates the other side of this trend: awesome-looking novelty wrist-jewelry. The Keypad watch looks like the number pad on any computer keyboard, and you press (almost) any one of those keys to ask the time. The watch then blinks lights embedded in the keys, one by one, to tell you the hour. Thus a zero, then a nine, a one and a five means 09:15. Easy enough, if a little time consuming.
The hash key has a different function: to display the date. And while you can pick between 12 and 24-hour time, it appears that you cannot set the date to display the date day-first (13/12 for December 13th) as God intended when he invented the Gregorian calendar 1776 years before the U.S became independent.
The Keypad watch comes in a variety of computer-drab colors, from cheap PC beige thru gamer black to a horrible 1980s gray (my favorite). Better still, they come at a price you could reasonably badger your spouse into paying to buy you the perfect Christmas gift: $90. Available now.
Keypad Watch product page [Watchismo. Thanks, Mitch!]
Oct 31
AT&T plans to sell exercise apparel that tracks your vitals, performance
Posted in: Apparel, att, gps, mobilepostcross, Today's Chili
It’s not enough for AT&T to simply sell cellphones, its emerging devices unit also traffics in everything from GPS dog collars to connected pill bottles. Now the company wants in on the fitness tracking craze. Forbes is reporting that Ma Bell will start offering apparel that could track GPS routes, heart rate and other vital stats — similar to the E39 shirt above from Zephyr and Under Armour. The clothing isn’t just for athletes though, the military, first responders and seniors could also benefit from the technology. Sadly, no firm release date or prices were announced, so don’t expect to wander into a Modell’s and pick up a wicking t-shirt that uploads your workouts to RunKeeper any time soon.
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Oct 25
Clip-On HUD For Any Glasses
Posted in: Apparel, Sports, Today's Chili
The Sportiiiis puts a HUD onto the specs of any athlete
Sportiiiis from 4iiiis (geddit?) is a small HUD (heads-up display) which can be used with almost any pair of specs. The clip-on unit fits to the arm of your glasses and seven colored LEDs sit in your peripheral vision, just below your right eye.
These LEDs can be programmed by computer or smartphone app to readout data from ANT+ devices. ANT+ is kind of the Bluetooth of fitness devices, and anything thus labelled is interoperable. Bike computers, heart-rate monitors and blood-pressure monitors can all be ANT+ devices.
The Sportiiiis readout is simple, with different LEDs blinking on to communicate information, a lot like the exposure systems found in the viewfinders of old SLRs. When more detailed information is needed, you can tap on the unit and it will read out the exact numbers through a speaker. You can use the Sportiiiis to monitor power, cadence and speed.
It’s specialized for sure, but given how the fitness crowd likes its gadgets, it could be a winner.
The Sportiiiis will go on sale in November for $200.
Sportiiiis product page [4iiiis via Andrew Liszewski]
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Oct 25
Who cares if you can’t tell the time? You’re going to look awesome
Remember this amazing Tron-inspired watch? Way back in October of last year it was nothing but a concept design with a litigation-avoiding name — 7R0N. Now it’s a real, buyable product, with an even less lawyer-baiting name: Kisai Seven.
Designed by Scott Galloway of Yorkshire, England, the Kisai Seven was last seen soliciting votes to be manufactured. Galloway’s design made it, and it now joins other beautiful-but-hard-to-read timepieces at Tokyo Flash.
The bioluminescent strips of the original are now LEDs. The inner and outer circles show hours and multiples of five minutes respectively, and the top and bottom strips count from one to four minutes. Thus, with a little puzzling (and the press of a button) you can tell the time.
The Kisai Seven is available now, for $140. If you grab it in the next couple of days, you’ll get it for $100.
Kisai Seven LED watch [Tokyo Flash. Thanks, Scott and Paul!]
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Oct 19
Day Bag Made from Recycled Car Airbags
Posted in: Apparel, Cars, Today's Chili
The Day Bag is made from old, popped car airbags
After you crash your car, but before you decide you’d be better off getting around by bike, you might consider ripping out the now-spent airbags and making them into a tough and light duffel bag.
Or you could skip the whole crashing business altogether (although you should still ditch the car) and just buy one of E13’s SRS Day Bags.
The bags are made from “upcycled” airbags which have popped their last. The resulting Day Bag looks like a skinny duffel, and has a detachable shoulder strap which gets its own pocket to stow it when you don’t need it. In fact, pretty much every part comes from a dead car: The outer layer is a driver-side airbag, the lining is from the passenger-side bag, and the handle and strap are recycled seat belts.
Capacity is six liters, the length 17.5 inches and the diameter 6.25 inches. There’s also an 8 x 5-inch pocket inside.
For a recycled bag, it’s pricey at $120, but then again, think about what you’re now saving on gas since you swapped your car for a bike.
Day Bag product page [E13 via Core77]
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Oct 14
xWith a name like ‘Bones,’ this feller is likely well used to the attention of nerds
Do you love your dog or do you hate him? Because either could be used as justification to turn him into an AT-AT, just like this poor fellow here.
The dog underneath this hallowe’en costume is called Bones (presumably he’s already been kitted out in Star Trek gear). The awesome costume was made by Katie Mello, an artist at the Laika/House animation studio based in Portland, Oregon and owner of Bones.
To be honest, little Bones probably doesn’t notice much except for the huge amount of extra attention he gets when dressed up. That doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be vigilant, though. All it would take is one rogue kitten to tangle a ball of wool around his legs and Bones will be a heap on the floor.
Bones in AT-AT costume [Facebook via BoingBoing]
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