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Sync Your Fitness Goals With Progress
Dec 19th
The Withings WiFi BodyScale
Packing more pounds than gifts this holiday season? This super tech scale will keep you in check with constant updates anywhere and anytime on your weight goals. The Withings WiFi Body Scale has a super stealth design and wifi integration allows instant access to your progress via iPhone, Android, iPad (first and second generation), and your computer. While some say its too much information, its probably exactly what you need to actually make that New Year’s resolution on trimming up happen.
Features
- Easy weight and fat mass monitoring on a private website secured by a password
- Personnalized multi-user monitoring thanks to an automatic user recognition (up to 8 users)
- Body analysis (fat mass, lean mass and BMI)
- Free iPhone application to monitor your weight and fat mass
- Graduation 0.2 lbs (0.1 kg) – 4 sensors, Maximum weight 396 lbs (180 kg)
- Uses 802.11g for extended range and low-power consumption
The Tool to Make You Better, Faster & Stronger
Oct 26th
Garmin pushes you to the limits with the new sexy Forerunner 910XT. With sleek curves, easy-to-read large viewing display, and seamless transitions in tracking your every move; you can’t help but to get in motion and race ready.
Source: Garmin Blog
Starbucks Big Gulp (Trenta), now with more RLS!
Jan 18th
Starbucks, the McDonald’s of Coffee (not to be confused with McCafe), is taking a page out of the 7-Eleven playbook and introducing a new extra-large drink size; the trenta. Trenta, for those of you that don’t speak italian, literally translates to Big Gulp. Okay so that might not be true, but the new Trenta sized cup is the same size as the 7-Eleven Big Gulp.
Here are 3 things you can expect from drinking the new “Trenta” sized coffees from Startbucks: More >
What the Tech?! It's the Hövding, duh!
Oct 19th
Welcome to the first edition of “What the Tech?!” For this inaugural edition, we have a very special item for you. What is it you ask?
It’s not a personal surround sound stereo system.
It’s not a prop from the 1987 theatrical hit, Spaceballs.
It’s not an oversized George Washington wig, released just in time for Halloween.
and……it’s not the new look in Haute Couture Fashion from the runways of New Yorks Fashion Week.
So what exactly is it?! Here’s a clue, you use one when you go to work. Give up? Click through to find out and watch a video of it in action.
What The Tech?! Series (What is it?) What is, "What the Tech?!" The "What the Tech?!" Series covers technologies that makes you take a second look while uncontrollably tilting your head to the side. Similar to what a K-9 does when seeing something it doesn't quite understand. So when we spot technology that just makes us go wonder, "What the heck is that?", well that is something that deservers to be covered here.
Berkeley Bionics eLEGS – Up-close and personal
Oct 8th
Yesterday, I posted a quick article about what I considered to be a really cool piece of technology, the Berkeley Bionics eLEGS. While there are military exoskeleton systems being developed that give soldiers superhuman strength, this battery powered exoskeleton system does something way better than that; it allows paraplegics to walk.
Anyway, as luck would have it, as I was going about my day, I happened across the very same system being prepped for a fund-raiser event. So I stopped for a few minutes to watch this amazing, empowering, system in action. I even had the chance to talk to Berkeley Bionics Vice President of Engineering, John Fogelin.
Click through to see a video of the system in action and to read what Fogelin had to say about the eLEGS system and what’s in-store for the future…..
Paraplegics Walk with Berkeley Bionics eLEGS Exoskeleton
Oct 7th
So this one is cool. This is the type of tech that truly changes peoples lives for the better.
The Berkeley Bionics Department just announced their latest gadget, it’s called eLEGS. It allows paraplegics walk utilizing an exoskeleton.
Clinical trials will begin shortly and hopes of wider distribution by the end of 2011.
Check out the full article and photogallery on Engadget.
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Be sure to check out our even better, related article: Berkeley Bionics eLEGS – Up-Close and Personal
It includes an impromptu interview with Berkeley Bionics Vice President of Engineering, John Fogelin.
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Source: Engadget, Berkeley Bionics
