All Entries Tagged With: "pedometer"
Swimsense Gives Real-Time Tracking For Swimmers
Bikers have bike computers that count wheel revolutions. Joggers have pedometers that keep track of their steps, along with even more complete solutions, like Nike+. Now, swimmers get in on the real-time performance-tracking action with Swimsense, a wrist-worn computer that keeps a tab on your numbers while you’re paddling in the water.
Created by Finis, the device incorporates a motion-sensing system that uses accelerometers to not just count your strokes – it can determine whether you’re performing a breaststroke, backstroke, freestyle or butterfly too. Fill in the other details, such as the length of the pool, gender, age and weight, and it can deliver pretty accurate reports of your in-water performance data.
The Swimsense Performance Monitor comes in wristwatch form and should be easy to mistake as one of the many Casio knock-offs from the 1980s. More advanced than that era’s digital timepieces, however, the fitness gadget should prove an invaluable tool [...]
Bandai Pedometer Includes A Samurai Adventure To Encourage Gamers To Exercise
If you can only do one of two things today, which one would you rather engage in, a jog around the park or a handheld video game? Count me in for the video game crowd – all while downing some chips and a soda at that. For folks like us, Bandai is hoping they have a solution – a pedometer/calorie counter that integrates a game with your calorie burning.
Who are we kidding? A pedometer that uses the distances we travel as input for an integrated game won’t exactly make us want to exercise. Unless the game is good and has a compelling storyline, that is. Now, does it?
According to the press release (which I don’t understand since it’s in Japanese), the pedometer casts the lazy exerciser as a 16th century Samurai with his eyes intent on taking control of Japan. You can choose any of three famous daimyo characters [...]
