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GPS Cradle for iPod Touch comes loaded with extras

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor all you lucky recipients of an iPod Touch this holiday season, there’s a cool and useful accessory coming out later this year to keep an eye on. The XGPS300 iPod Touch GPS Cradle from Dual Electronics turns your iPod Touch into a fully-enabled GPS device. The XGPS300 includes a free turn-by-turn Navigation app NavAtlas, […]

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Trace – activity monitor for action sports

Reading Time: < 1 minuteGPS enabled device allows you to not only capture your snowboarding runs (vertical, calories, airtime, speed, etc) or wave’s surfed (waves, speed, cutbacks with turn radius, etc), but easily (almost automatically) overlay that information over your GoPro footage…

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Ski/board like a cyborg with Recon Instruments

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few years ago Zeal Optics came out with the Transcend HUD (heads up display) goggle that used GPS to track speed (maximum, average, and current), lat/long, temperature, total vertical distance traversed, number of runs and total distance. The maker of that HUD is Recon Instruments and now their HUD technology can be used in […]

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Apple Nano & TikTok + LunaTik – coolest watch ever?

Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a geek like me, running gadgets are hard to resist. GPS watches, heart rate monitors, running belts, iPhone in armband, earbuds… I own them all and not surprisingly, I’ve run with them all… at the same time. Maybe it’s the barefoot craze and the notion of going lighter, I’ve talked about going lighter in […]

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Helmet Cam Review: GoPro, Vholdr, Drift & Liquid Image

Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m a big fan of capturing moments on film and reliving them just after the fact and years down the road. I have the whole saga of getting married on tape starting with the proposal and on through to the honeymoon (easy, I’m talking about the snorkeling in Maui and the helicopter ride in Kauii). […]

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Heart Rate Training

Reading Time: 6 minutesOkay, let’s just see a quick show of hands… How many of you already own a heart rate monitor of some description? Okay, quite a few of you. Alright, keep your hands up if you know how to use your HRM?  Hmmm, okay, a few hands went down. Quizzical looks on a lot of faces […]

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Sounds I Like

Reading Time: 5 minutesSwimming The sound of zipping up your wetsuit early in the morning. The small ripples you make in the water when you get in. The splashes other people make when they get in. They squeal and make high-pitched noises, but you have done this so many times before in much colder conditions, you just sink […]

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Protects and serves: the Lowepro NaviShield 4.3

Reading Time: < 1 minuteGiven the cost of portable gadgets, it’s a good idea to protect your investment with a well constructed and functional case. Writing about a case in a tech article may seem a stretch to some, but the Lowepro 4.3 Navi Shield falls squarely under the category of gear with it’s hard, molded-foam exterior and soft […]

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Mountain Hardwear jackets provide continuous heat and power to personal electronics

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the Northeast the weather can change in an instant. This time of year temperatures fluctuate +/- 20° F almost daily. Being resistant to bad weather is important in these parts (I see kids in t-shirts at the bus stop in January), being prepared for bad weather is vital. Mountain Hardwear, a manufacturer of innovative […]

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Brick training: bike-to-run, a true bitness love story

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the run-up to the London Triathlon, I had a miserable couple of weeks doing some really crappy work (teaching photography to a bunch of aggressive, violent teenagers) for which I was completely unprepared, getting stressed out, losing sleep, not eating enough, not training much, and generally giving my buddy, Crohn’s Disease, several good reasons to […]

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Bodies in Motion Keep Personal Electronic Devices Charged

Reading Time: 2 minutesFor almost a quarter century, Kinetic watches have kept themselves wound by converting movement into energy. As of 2007, over eight million Kinetic watches have been sold and the notion of harvesting energy from movement is becoming even more popular today with a new generation of what are called Nanogenerator devices. Nanogenerators have the ability […]

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Hidden iPhone feature and the new Nike + SportBand

Reading Time: 2 minutesOn most runs I’m wearing a Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS watch with the heart rate receiver strapped around my chest, an armband with my iPhone and on my longer runs, a Fuel Belt around my waist. The hotter it gets and the longer into the running season I go, the more anxious I get with […]

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How gadget users can tread lightly on the environment

Reading Time: 3 minutesThere is no denying our infatuation with gadgets is taking it’s toll on the environment. By following the three R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle) that have become synonymous with ‘green’ living, this article helps inform gadget enthusiasts what we can do to tread lightly. Reduce: energy consumption While some gadgets can have a positive impact to […]