It won’t be a superstar football player who takes the first kick of 2014’s Football World Cup in Brazil. Nope, instead, it will be a teenager, paralysed from the waist down, who will use the world’s most advanced mind-controlled exoskeleton to get things underway.
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Unless you’re a doctor, retired, or the kid of someone who already plays, golf seems like an impossibly boring undertaking. Its only redeeming factor is tooling around a course on a golf cart, or even better, this electric-powered skateboard that’s strong enough to carry you and your clubs.
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Wahoo Fitness has come up with yet another device for fitness buffs, which is the RPM Cadence Sensor. This is a lightweight and hassle free manner of tracking cycling cadence. It sports a convenient magnet-less installation and feather light weight of just seven grams, allowing the RPM to be attached to any bicycle in a jiffy as it shows off cadence data through the use of popular cycling apps. If you want to pick up the RPM, it will be available for $49.99 a pop, or you can opt for it to be bundled with the RFLKT Smart Bike Computer for $149.99.
Just how will the RPM Cadence Sensor work? For starters, it will be able to hook up wirelessly to the user’s iOS device thanks to Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, where it will then be able to send cadence data to top cycling apps such as Wahoo Fitness (but of course), Strava and MayMyRide. Being different from the majority of speed and cadence sensors, RPM happens to be magnet-less, which translates to an easy setting up experience. LED lights will flash whenever it is connected to depict the fact that a wireless connection has been established, making sure that you know right from the very beginning that data is being actively logged. Apart from that, there is also no need to juice up the sensor at all, as it will be able to run on a single coin cell battery for up to two years so that the sensor can remain on the user’s bike between rides.
Among the features that can be found in the Wahoo Fitness RPM Cadence Sensor would include the ability to pair itself up with the Wahoo Fitness app in addition to other popular cycling apps, and being compatible with the iPhone 4s, 5, 5s, 5c, iPod touch (5th generation), and iPad (3rd and 4th generation). This should be a “must have” purchase for any cycling enthusiast who wants to up his or her game.
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[ Wahoo Fitness announces the RPM Cadence Sensor copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Now that Christmas is over and you still have a few more days to go before you usher in the brand new year, how about starting to think about your fitness regime for 2014? After all, you have already had your fair share of crazy parties that would surely have added an inch or two to your waist, which means it is time to take a look at your gym membership terms and conditions again to see if there are any other better offers elsewhere. The $79.95 Automatic Start Gyroscopic Dumbbell might be worth looking at, as you might be encouraged to hear that it has been used by astronauts and professional athletes in order to help them tone and strengthen their upper body muscles.
The Automatic Start Gyroscopic Dumbbell works this way – press a button, and it will start to get to work. All you need to do is to hold the tennis ball-sized device and rotate your wrist in order to maintain the rotation of the gyroscope so that as it spins up to 15,500 rpm and provides up to 45 lbs. of torque resistance, the entire gamut of your wrists, biceps, triceps, and deltoids will be strengthened. In a study that was performed by Southern Utah University, it showed the gyroscopic dumbbell to be able to increase one’s maximum handgrip strength by an average of 11%. Not only that, since this exercise is low-impact, it can also increase the range of motion in hands while helping to rehabilitate carpal tunnel and tennis elbow injuries. Just make sure you have two AA batteries on hand always.
[ Automatic Start Gyroscopic Dumbbell adds another dimension to your workout copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
There are more than a few snowboarders on staff at WIRED, and it’s our solemn duty to use the first healthy mid-December snowfall as an opportunity test the season’s newest planks.
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This week the folks at Pyle Audio have taken the smart fitness ecosystem up a notch with additional tracking through a Bluetooth scale. You’ll stand on it, you’ll weigh yourself, … Continue reading
Do you have trouble sticking to workout regimens? Maybe you start off strong for the first couple weeks, but then you start missing them here and there until, eventually, you realize there’s a you-shaped cavern in your couch. You’re in good company. But there’s a tool that our own bodies produce that might just be the missing ingredient. In fact, it can literally make you addicted to your workouts.
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If you follow anyone who was down in Miami for the art fairs earlier this month, you might have seen their photographs of the Miami Marine Stadium, a decaying, dilapidated oceanfront venue for powerboat racing that turns 50 years old next week. Condemned in 1992 after Hurricane Andrew, it’s since been plagued by vandalism and covered in graffiti.
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Finding the right gear for a fitness freak can be a little tricky, so we’ve done the heavy lifting for you.
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When it comes to sports, they say it doesn’t matter if you win or lose, just how you play the game. And if hockey’s your thing, with the FWD Powershot sensor on the end of your stick you’ll know for sure if you played the game better than everyone else out there on the ice.
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