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Powerbreather Redesigns the Snorkel for Swimmers and Divers

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) On the long list of products that work really well but can sometimes be frustrating, the snorkel is near the top. The Powerbreather is a new snorkel design for swimmers and divers that takes the anxiety out of breathing through a tube. Powerbreather is dual snorkel system that is made from an elastic material so it fits comfortably around a swimmer's head. Air is drawn in through the back of the system and exhaled through a valve in the front ensuring the swimmer only inhales fresh air eliminating snorkel fatigue. The swimmer does not need [...]

Tricorder Health Vitals in Your Hand with the Scanadu Scout

Your health is your responsibility and when something is wrong, you want to know right away. A new health scanner from Scanadu acts like an expanded forehead thermometer will give you your vitals on your smartphone in just ten seconds. The Scanadu Scout is being developed as an entrant in the Qualcomm Tricorder X-PRIZE competition, a ten million dollar global competition to build the world’s first working, "Tricorder". The Scout works like a forehead thermometer by pressing the device to the forehead and holding it there for ten seconds. Using Bluetooth LE, the device transmits vitals including heart rate, temperature, breathing, dissolved oxygen, blood pressure and even emotional stress to [...]

The Monkey Light Pro Full Wheel Display System

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) I can think of a few ways to turn heads while on a bike ride but the coolest way to do it is to light up your wheels. The Monkey Light Pro from MonkeyLectric is a new product that is going to add high visibility to you and your ride. The Monkey Light Pro consists of four LED light strips that bolt together and attach to the hub and spokes of your bicycle rims. Using an on-board two-axis accelerometer and four magnets, the system keeps track of speed and rotation direction to display a stabilized [...]

The Finis Neptune for Underwater Music in the Pool

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Workouts are much easier when you can listen to your tunes and with the Neptune waterproof MP3 player from Finis, swimmers can now do what land athletes have been doing for a long time, enjoying music while training. The Neptune is a waterproof MP3 player that attaches securely to a swimmer's goggle strap. Instead of ear buds, the Neptune uses bone conduction technology that sends sound vibrations through the jawbone directly to the inner-ear bone making the music sound like it is playing inside your head. On-board the Neptune is 4 gigabytes of storage or [...]

Lightpack Adds Ambient Lighting to Your Entertainment Experience

To relieve strain on your eyes while watching television or playing games, you need a well-lit room or you need television lighting to backlight your display. Lightpack from Woodenshark has come up with a creative solution that will backlight your display using ambient lighting effects. Lightpack is a completely open-source hardware addition for your television or monitor that improves the presence effect of the entertainment you are watching. Lightpack uses ten LED strips that fasten to the back edge of your display. Through a controller pack that connects to a Windows, Linux or OS X system, the Prismatik software matches the image with multiple independent RGB channels. The result is [...]

Play Guitar Anywhere with the Zivix JamStik

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Sometimes, you just gotta jam. If you love to play the guitar or are wanting to learn, the new JamStik from Zivix is a highly portable smart guitar that takes the frustration out of learning letting you play music anywhere. JamStik is a fifteen-inch long portable smart guitar that connects with your iDevice turning your iDevice into a real musical instrument. It works by using a patented infrared sensing fret board to precisely detect the position of a fingertip and track your movements. When combined with the JamMix app, users can strum along on real [...]

Extreme Sports Metrics with the LIT Activity Tracker

At most, a fitness tracker can keep track of distance, direction or steps taken which is great if you are engaged in a sport with walking or running. When you are surfing, skating or even snowboarding, you might want to know hang time, maximum airtime, jumps and even g-forces. The LIT Activity Tracker from NZN Labs is designed for action sports with unique motions. It works by using an advanced six-axis accelerometer combined with a gyroscope to sense motions any other fitness tracker cannot and then applies a tailored algorithm to score those activities. With extreme sports comes extreme environments, which is why LIT is rugged, water and shock resistant [...]

The Piq Jukebox Brings Social Music Play to Gatherings

When you go to a party, everyone has to listen to the music the host chooses, and please, do not touch the stereo! Piq is going to change that making everyone in the room with a smartphone the DJ. Piq is a small social jukebox that you connect to your music system and with a downloadable app, anyone in the room can pick, or, "Piq" their favorite song to play. Using the app is simple enough, connect to your music service or bring up your stored music, select a song and the song is added to the playlist. Here is where Piq gets very social: everyone at the gathering can [...]

Master Mixology with The Barman Drink Mixing Platform

Most of us can figure out how to mix a rum and Coke but do you know how to mix a Manhattan or a Cosmopolitan? John Gallagher is about to introduce The Barman to get you on the road to mastering mixology. The Barman is a drink mixing platform that uses differential weight to guide you through mixing any drink you desire. It uses a smartphone app that knows hundreds of drinks and communicates with the phone through Bluetooth. To use The Barman, place any glass on the platform, select a drink and follow the indicator on the front of the system which shows how much of the ingredient to [...]