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Apple patent shows future Nike+ shoes

By Brenda Stokes on Friday, Sep 12th 2008 No Comments

Another Apple patent has been uncovered that discloses some interesting information about a potential future product. It involves taking the Nike+ system to the next level with some high-tech running shoes.

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FitBit wirelessly uploads your exercise data

By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Sep 10th 2008 No Comments

fitbit1 If you enjoy working out regularly, FitBit might be a nifty device to add to your fitness arsenal. It clips on your clothes and keeps track of your exercise routine for you.

With a built-in motion sensor, the device acts as a pedometer and so much more. FitBit doesn’t just count your steps. It tracks how many calories you’ve burned, how far you’ve travelled, the intensity of your exercise, how well you’re sleeping and more.

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Yamaha BODiBEAT exercise-synchronized PMP goes on sale

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Aug 21st 2008 1 Comment

Yamaha have begun shipping their exercise-centric BODiBEAT PMP, which automatically selects songs that match the pace of your workout. Combination earphones and pulse-monitor (which clips onto your ear) are included, as is software that automatically analyses your music and then syncs track selections with the steps of the your walk or run. Onboard storage is a pittance, however – just 512MB – and battery life around 12 hours.

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iPhone Nike+ screenshots leak

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Aug 20th 2008 No Comments

Leaked screenshots of Nike’s latest fitness collaboration with Apple have allegedly shown up online, giving the healthy and the wannabe-healthy a glimpse of what will be making them sweat almost as much as a Steve Jobs keynote. Nike+ for the iPhone appears to bring many of the previously desktop-only features -such as mapping and performance graphing – directly to the handset itself.

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Atari Family Trainer – Wii Fit alternative

By Ewdison Then on Wednesday, May 14th 2008 No Comments

Wii Fit will likely be one of the best sellers game for Nintendo this summer, and the concept of fun exercise is very appealing to people and Atari agrees. Atari is releasing its own version of fitness game called Family Trainer.

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Nike+ Sportsband – now all profits going to Nike, screws Apple

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Mar 31st 2008 3 Comments

NikeSportBand04 With the Nike+ iPod product line you had to buy the Nike Trainers, the Nike+ iPod kit, and an iPod Nano, which was helping Apple make some dough. With this latest product Nike has cut out Apple completely making everything the previous Nike+ kit did possible, except for the music, without the iPod.

Instead the system uses a wrist band that communicates with the sensor that goes in your Nike Trainers and stores the data on its flash storage. The band then comes apart to reveal a USB interface which you can use to transfer up to 16 hours of workout data to your computer or upload and share it with the online community at Nikeplus.com.

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Samsung F110 Adidas phone dropping soon

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Oct 23rd 2007 No Comments

Well, the co-branding fairies are at it again, this time blessing a deal between Samsung and Adidas. The F110 is actually not that great of a phone if you are a geek, although if you are a more physically fit type of person, it’s great, with and included heartbeat monitor, step counter, and other sports applications.

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It’s a 2.5G phone with GPRS/EDGE; there is also a 2” screen, a 2MP cam, and a FM radio tuner. It also has and MP3 player function and I assume a card slot of some sort.

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Walkstation – Working just got less exciting

By Chris on Monday, Oct 22nd 2007 1 Comment

There’s no denying that people are spending a lot more time in front of their computers these days. Who can blame them? It seems that there’s nothing you can’t do with a few mouse clicks. The obvious downside is that most people aren’t getting enough exercise. So I wonder, if there were a way to combine computing with exercise, would you do it?

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iJoy Board Trainer helps you prepare for snowboarding season

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Oct 2nd 2007 1 Comment

the end of the year is fast approaching, and with it comes winter and snow, so I am sure there are some of you awaiting that first snow, your first chance to hit the slopes. Well in order to get you better prepared iJoy has released the Board Trainer exercise machine that works your abdominals and obliques just like on a real snowboard.

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So if you want to be able to hit the slope running again just like you were at the end of the last season instead of having to start back on the small hill pick one of these up and give it ago, sure it won’t be able to fully prepare you for all that bone-crushing hyper-extending fun, but you’ll be that much closer and you might have the stamina to stay out there for a little longer than 20 minutes.

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Gamercize – No, it won’t make your kid excercise any more

By Chris on Monday, Sep 24th 2007 No Comments

People tend to gripe that today’s youth has become lazy due to the popularity of video games. While I don’t deny that video games do give kids a good excuse to sit around all day, I hardly think that’s the real problem. I won’t bore you with my thoughts about parenting, and how that’s a bigger part of the problem. I will however show you a product that will ensure that you’re getting plenty of exercise while gaming.

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