Category: Fitness Gadgets
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Electronics Dominate the Toy Wishes “Hot Dozen” Holiday Gift List for 2005
Reading Time: 3 minutesToy Wishes Magazine has released its ever-popular Hot Dozen Toys for 2005. This list is intended to forecast which toys will be the most popular during the 2005 holidays. We can safely assume that if the magazine is correct, many of them will also become hard to find in stores at some…
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Shure E4c Sound Isolating Earphones Win Editors’ Choice from CNET
Reading Time: 2 minutesI started researching sound isolating earphones that are placed in the ear canal because so many of my friends are dissatisfied with the earphones that came with their iPods and wanted to know more about the earphones that are considered better. Through this investigation, I found that aftermarket earphones are available at…
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How Trek Travel Keeps the Tour of Hope in Touch with Itself
Reading Time: < 1 minuteChris Brewer wrote an article on The Paceline about following the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope National Team during Day 7 of their ride across the United States. The most interesting part of this article for Operation Gadget readers is Chris’ description of the communications technology that Trek Travel has implemented…
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23-Mile Pre-Tour of Hope Ride Proves the Value of Inexpensive Bike Upgrades
Reading Time: 3 minutesKathleen hasn’t been feeling too good in the past few days, but on the way home from our weekend trip to visit friends in Boston, she planned my week leading up to Saturday’s Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope Baltimore to DC Fundraising Ride. She told me, “You have to ref on Wednesday…
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Switched to Shimano SPD-Compatible Mountain Bike Pedals and Shoes
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast week I took advantage of a great sale and bought a pair of Peformance Forte Team Mountain Bike Pedals and Pearl Izumi Vagabond Mountain II cleated shoes from Performance Bike. Up to now, I’ve been riding with pedals that have toe clips on them, which I knew was taking away from…
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Runner’s World Publishes Guide to Picking an MP3 Player
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRunner’s World Magazine published a guide to picking an MP3 player written by Gizmodo editor John Biggs. Conspicuous in its absense from this guide is the iPod nano, but not a surprise due to the fact that the review was written for a “dead trees” publication. Of real surprise, however, is…
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Giant Provided Amateur Cyclists Opportunities to Ride the Courses of the Tour of Germany
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRichard Pestes of PezCycling News published an article about his experience riding the Time Trial course at the Tour of Germany (DeutscheTour) through a program called Giant Tour. Giant Bicycles apparently has a huge presence in Germany, in part because it is the bicycle sponsor of the T-Mobile Professional Cycling Team.…
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Mapping Race Courses with a GPS and Google Maps
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDave Mabe has published a couple of articles on compiling race maps by taking GPS tracklogs, processing them, and running the resulting data file through the Google Maps API. The articles are: Automated Running Logs using Google Maps Course Map using the Google Maps API Looks like he’s getting a lot…