Operation Gadget
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Bobby Julich Rides Tour Team Time Trial Wearing a Camelbak
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you watched the Tour de France Team Time Trial earlier today, you may have seen Bobby Julich, the American rider on Team CSC, wearing a Camelbak hydration system. This is the first time I ever saw a rider wearing a hydration pack during a Tour stage. But, it was obvious and…
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Three Distinct Flavors of Tour de France Coverage on OLN
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had a chance to sit down yesterday and watch all of the Outdoor Life Network’s coverage of the Tour de France. I found it somewhat different from the coverage they put forth last year. Here’s a summary: AOL for Broadband Pre-race Show: This program is anchored by Al Trautwig and Bob…
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Cycling Teams in Tour de France Publishing Performance Data on Web
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJosh Gray of Jtri.com told us about Lennard Zinn‘s report for Bicycling Magazine about the alliance between the Saeco Cycling Team and SRM to allow Tour de France watchers to monitor heart rate, power, speed, and cadence data for some of Saeco’s riders. The data is available during the running of…
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U.S. Women’s Open Makes Me Wish I Had a DVD Recorder
Reading Time: 2 minutesMatt Manzi is the superintendent of The Orchards Golf Club where the 2004 U.S. Women’s Open was contested over the weekend. My brother Scott Aiello is one of Matt’s best friends, an assistant superintendent of a course himself, and spent the better part of a week working for Matt as part of…
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June 28 – July 4, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the fifth week of June 2004. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…
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Replaced the Wheels on My Marin Bear Valley SE with Mavic CrossLands
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve been off of my Marin Bear Valley SE mountain bike recently because my wheels were too brittle to keep riding. I’m fortunate that I have never tacoed a wheel badly enough to have to replace one. But, lately the wheels became so weak due to metal fatigue that I was…
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Motorola Provides More Details on A630
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMotorola released further details on its forthcoming A630 mobile phone. According to its press release, the A630 includes: a traditional phone keypad on the outside and a separate full alphanumeric keyboard inside a sideways clamshell, a traditional phone display on the outside and a 176 x 220 pixel color display in…
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Tour de France TV Coverage is Full of Technical Innovations
Reading Time: 2 minutesEven if you think that watching cycling on television is boring, I urge you to turn on the Outdoor Life Network sometime this month and watch some of the coverage of the Tour de France. The coverage of the race on the road is particularly interesting when you think about how it’s…
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Motorola A630 Announced, OS in Dispute
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night, Motorola announced apparently announced the A630 mobile phone at an exclusive party in New York. The party was so exclusive that none of the gadget press got an invite. Maybe this is why no one can agree what embedded operating system is going to drive this thing: MobileTracker, no…