We’ve talked about Adida’s miCoach series in the past, and while the fitness-tracking devices have laid low for quite some time, it seems as if Adidas is ready to reboot the product line with a new miCoach device. For example, what’s supposedly called the miCoach X_Cell is making its way through the FCC now and […]
Back in December, Zensorium released its Tinke fitness accessory for the iPhone, a colorful square device allowing fitness enthusiasts who use iOS to monitor their health by connecting directly to their smartphone. The original device features a 30-pin connector, but a Lightning edition will be rolling out this upcoming October. The updated edition was unveiled […]
It’s lazy to point out that technology makes us lazy. Of course it does. The entire idea of technology is predicated around an efficiency whose end is specifically a decline in human exertion. You know, lazy. But technology’s actually making us fat for another reason altogether.
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For a lot of us, exercise can be quite boring and running on the treadmill for an hour straight is probably one of the dullest things possible, but what if exercise could be fun? What if you could do something that would be considered exercise, but at the same time be enjoyable to the point where you forget it’s exercise? Well that’s what the folks at Blue Goji hopes to do with their new game. For those unfamiliar, Blue Goji is a new startup that was quietly founded back in 2011 by the co-inventors of Guitar Hero, Kai and Charles Huang.
Speaking to AllThingsD, Blue Goji revealed their plans to make games and fitness accessories that will make time past faster while exercising. These accessories are expected to be made available by the end of the year, and not only do these accessories track your progress, but allow the user to control specific types of games as well. Unfortunately details are a bit scarce at this point, but according to Blue Goji’s CEO, Kai Huang, “The objective is to make them so fun that you want to come back, and you want to play them, and fitness becomes a byproduct.” Sounds like something a lot of us could use and we can’t wait to see what they’ve got!
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Fujitsu’s high-tech walking stick looks
to offer easy monitoring and direction for loved ones. A few
additions to its already decent feature set, however, could make it
even better.
Calories are pretty nebulous. We’ve taken a couple
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If you’re a fitness nut and/or enjoy knowing bits and pieces of information about the environment around you using smart sensors, SelfLoops may very well have made an accessory you’re all about. This SelfLoops ANT+ accessory (as it’s so humbly titled) brings about connectivity to fitness and health sensors that use the ANT+ protocol – every single one of them. Then while you’re at it, this accessory charges your Android device up on-the-go.
So you’ve got this brick-looking device made by SelfLoops. You plug it in to your Android smartphone, download a couple SelfLoops apps, and you’re on your way. What this accessory does is connect to any and all ANT+ devices you’ve got on hand – and there are a lot of them at this point, mind you, feeding any relevant information in to your smartphone.
*UPDATE: SelfLoops does indeed note that this device works with any application written using the official AND Alliance APIs at this time – so you’re free to go wild!
Once you’ve got the information in your phone, the SelfLoops suite of apps is able to make use of it all. At the moment, this sensor only works with the SelfLoops apps – in the future, it’s easy to imagine this accessory acting as halfway point between Android devices and a wide variety of accessories and apps.
Meanwhile this accessory accesses humidity, temperature, and barometric pressure all on its own.
This accessory works with all Android devices so long as they’re working with Android 2.3.4 (that’s all the way back to Gingerbread!) or higher. Inside you’ve got a rechargeable 2000mAh battery that’ll be the hookup for your Android phone, and the whole machine comes in at just 1.76 ounces.
SelfLoops brings ANT+ to all Android devices is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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All of the cool tech that you can get for your bike can add a lot of new functionality to the way you exercise, including cadence sensors, and bike computers that tell you your speed and distances. However, all of this technology has never really been implemented into the bike seamlessly, but that’s where a
The Freeloader is a child carrier with a twist. Unlike
traditional carriers, which are made basically just for babies, the
Freeloader can hold a child of up to 80 lbs. It fits on the adult like a
backpack and has a lightweight, fold-down seat at the back.
Some art theorists say that art is a reflection of self, but Lisa Nilsson takes that a step further with her anatomical art made entirely out of curled pieces of paper. Her one-of-a-kind style takes a new look at the world that beats beneath our skin…and for the record, it’s more than paper-thin.
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