Category: Fitness Gadgets
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Siemens Demonstrates Runster, Prototype Mobile Music Application for Exercise
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGizmodo reports that Siemens demonstrated an application called Runster that varies the tempo of music played on a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone based on how quickly the user moves. The idea is to allow the user to listen to songs that are appropriate to the intensity of his or her exercise. The…
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Inside Ride Super Trainer Lets You Ride Gradients Like in the Pro Tour
Reading Time: 2 minutesInside Ride Super Trainer: a $40,000 custom-built bicycle treadmill for when you can’t make it to Alpe d’Huez. [ Photo: BCI Manufacturing ] Earlier today Gizmodo pointed out a Super Trainer bicycle treadmill that one of their readers claimed was “twelve feet long, three feet wide, and something like twenty-five hundred pounds”.…
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WorkoutGPS Turns Your GPS-Enabled Mobile Phone into a Fitness Computer
Reading Time: 2 minutesDave Sutter of Intransix found Operation Gadget and sent the following email to me: I came across your site Operation Gadget while I was surfing the web. I thought you might be interested in a new GPS cell phone application called WorkoutGPS. WorkoutGPS currently is available for Nextel phones. It uses GPS…
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iSMARTtrain 2.0 Brings Polar Heart Rate Monitor Data Analysis to Macintosh
Reading Time: < 1 minuteStuart Tevendale reports that iSMARTtrain Version 2.0 is now available. This $40.00 program is a fitness training log for the Apple Macintosh platform, with versions coming soon for Windows and Linux. iSMARTtrain interfaces with the Polar S610, S625x, S710, S720, S725, S810, Xtrainer, or Accurex II heart rate monitors. Pre-existing data…
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Glofun RayGun is an Interesting Game that Can Help You Stay in Shape
Reading Time: 4 minutesGlofun RayGun: a Java-based, GPS-enabled game coming soon for the Motorola i710 and i730. [ Graphic: GloVentures LLC ] I finally got the opportunity to put a new mobile phone game called Glofun RayGun to the test, and I was pretty surprised at the workout I got. Glofun RayGun is advertised as…
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Calibrating the Foot Pod that Comes with the Polar S625X
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve been testing the Polar S625X Running Computer that includes a heart rate monitior and a Polar S1 Foot Pod that measures the speed and distance that you run. In my first test, I ran 5 kilometers as measured by my Garmin Forerunner 201, an GPS-based outdoor exercise computer that’s also…
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Polar S625X Put Through Its Paces
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday was the first day in about a week in Central New Jersey where we had clear skies and temperatures above 30 degrees Fahrenheit. I thought it was a good day to unpack, setup, and try out the Polar S625X Running Computer that my friends at Polar USA sent me. Polar S625X…
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Oakley Thump MP3 Eyewear Reviewed by Engadget
Reading Time: 2 minutesEngadget just posted their review of the Oakley Thump, eyewear with a built-in MP3 player. Operation Gadget first mentioned the Oakley Thump during the 2004 Tour de France when the prototype was shown to Lance Armstrong. They are an interesting product that might appeal to some hardcore bikers, runners, and multisport people…
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iPod Shuffle Will Be a Hit with Athletes
Reading Time: 2 minutesI talked to my brother, Scott Aiello, today who told me he put his name on the list for one of the $99 iPod Shuffles at the local Best Buy near his house. He later learned that the store has no idea when he will receive his iPod Shuffle, so he’ll probably…