Category: Technology
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Amp your workout with FIT Radio
FIT Radio is a web and mobile application that streams DJ-engineered music of all genres designed to amp your workout. A Pandora for gym rats with several channels to choose from, such as Top 40, Electronic and Dub Step. Free streaming app available for iOS and Android. Finally a way to get rid of that…
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Lecomte demoing iPhone HUD goggles for his Longest Swim
The geek in me is very intrigued (and hopes this is for real): Atlantic Ocean swimmer Ben Lecomte demoing a Vuzix iWear-like iPhone head-up display device for his Aqua Sphere goggles, with which he will be able to read emails and watch video while swimming across the Pacific Ocean, raising funds toward cancer research in…
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The Eco Extreme is a rugged iPhone pool deck dock
The Eco Extreme is a rugged all terrain speaker case that works with every mp3 player or cellphone with a headset jack, including the iPhone, iPod Touch, Motorola Droid and Blackberry. Able to withstand being submersed 1 meter in water for up to 30 min, and floatable to minimize that potential problem. Most rugged cases…
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What, you enter the Speedo Fastskin3 through the armhole ?!?
Love it when engineers mess with our conventions (as an engineer myself :-). And by the way … this need for the model to wear an in principle illegal modesty suit to make the video ‘safe for work’, is a real and practical problem in the locker rooms! If the suits are designed to take…
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Elevating pool is both very 007 and good for the disabled
Hidden Water Pools founder Stefan Kanetis designed this system to aid his mother Delicia, who for many years was a professional dancer, but later paid the price with severe arthritis and muscle damage in her lower extremities. Her doctor suggested that in order to avoid the wheelchair, she needed to exercise daily in a warm…
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ButterflEYE goggles measure your heart rate while swimming
As a swimmer on her college team at the American University of Beirut, it never made sense to Hind Hobeika that practices were organized according to heart rates taken after the swims, or with watches or belts that disturb and slow you down. So she invented the ButterflEYE goggles that read the pulse in the…
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Track your laps, splits, stroke rate and type with the Swimtag wristband
Swimtag is a training aid that monitors progress in the pool, much like the Finis Swimsense or Swimovate Pool-Mate Pro, but more simplified without buttons or display, to act more as a passive device than a watch. The idea is that for instance your local pool provides these wristbands as a service, that you pick…
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Fly underwater on the towable Abyss Board
The Abyss Board is the first towable board that can be ridden both above and below the wake, while doing tricks and maneuvers by steering its wings. “It combines fighter jet maneuvers with underwater exploration, there’s really nothing like it,†said Eric Healy, aeronautical engineer and Abyss Board inventor. “Cruising on the Abyss Board allows…
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Flyboard from Zapata Racing, for when you REALLY want to have fun
Wow, this thing looks even better than the Jetlev r200 Jet Pack, with those additional hoses on your arms and everything. See zapata-racing.com, via Buzzfeed