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A new joint venture with Sessions and SkullCandy brings us a killer snowboarding jacket. Using SkullCandy’s soft control technology built into the sleeve, Sessions offers a nice looking jacket.Aside from the basics of snowboarding jackets, the external controls mean that you don’t have to let out the heat in you jacket to skip tracks etc. Keeping you and your iPod nice and cozy while protecting you from having a yard sale if you tried to change tracks the old way. This can be yours for $153.96.
Nike is jumping into the wearable safety gear for runners. The Nike Electrolite Arm Band has an embedded soft light. Not only is this very wearable, its comfortable and affordable. It barely wieghs more then a traditional arm band, and is curved so it can be seen from many angles.Made of a flexible, lightweight, wide-angle wrap-around electroluminescent light bar that flashes on your upper arm. The small water resistant compartment houses two replaceable CR2032 batteries which provide around 20-30 hours of use and a low-profile on/off button. It is reasonably priced at $25.00. Good stuff Nike.
ONO Running brings us a cool concept. Its a fashionable tech sneaker that has a glowing heel. Its a tasteful balance of cool and competent. The glowing heel provides safety and visibility in low light scenarios.The inventors of the ONO Glow sneaker Matt Galica and Elliott Temkin learned from their own experiences that reflective material is not enough to provide safety from cars at night. They also wished for integration into what they would normally wear so they would not have to worry about leaving something at home.
The discrete design is barely visible when not illuminated. When lit, three colored LEDs shine into a dispersing fiber optic band. Operation comes from a button on the side of the heel, where on and off as ..read more
Biodevices brings us the Vital Jacket. This garment is used to monitor ECG waves and Heart rate levels. This can be used for sports, fitness, and medical purposes.This beat traditional cumbersome methods and is a valid high quality solution. This allows for a free range of movement with no compromise to bio-feedback integrity.
There are currently two versions available, the HWM100 that stores data on a SD memory card for post-analysis on a PC. This version allows long term monitoring. Users can define heart rate limits and will be alerted through a vibration alarm embedded in the T-Shirt. The second version is the HWM200 that allows realtime visualization where data is sent via Bluetooth to a PDA or smart phone.
This device will set you back $635.44 and ..read more
Interactive textiles are finding ways to reach everywhere. Australia’s CSIRO Textile and Fibre Technology has designed a interactive sleeve that is designed to help basketball players develop a shooting rhythm.It works by making rhythmic sounds that correspond with the shooting motion. Although this cannot be used in a game situation, it does help promote repetition and muscle memory. When the sounds play like disco drums, then the motion is correct.
This body mapping technology can lead to some interesting concepts down the road… stay tuned.
Winner of the ShapeYou.com Sports, Health & Fitness GearAwards™ 2008, NuMetrex has cardio clothes covered. The NuMetrex Heart Sensing Sports Bra and the Cardio Shirt for Men got the Top Gear medal while the Heart Sensing Racer Tank was awarded the Great Gear medal.The great part about Numetrex is that interchangablibity of the wrist monitor with the various models of clothes. They were a pioneer in this field. Cool Stuff.
An interesting twist has occurred with the Bio-harness of Zephyr Technologies and i-Rule. i-Rule is a sportswear innovator and they have made the Sputnik.How does this relate to Facebook? Simple, the sensor in the shirt can transmit the data to the cradle. Using the Sputnik software, it can then be compiled and uploaded to Facebook. This help so you can show your friends what a physical specimen you are. The shirt can can measure, transmit and record key athletic performance attributes such as heart rate, respiration rate, skin temperature and posture. Its not integrated as neatly as NuMetrex, but hey its a start.
Smart textile innovator Textronics Inc. has been awarded a breakthrough patent. Know for its NuMetrex line of fitness apparel, Textronics has found a way to integrate ECG monitoring into fabric.These textile base electrodes are able to record electrical body data and is now approved by the patent office and the FDA. This is a huge step in biofeedback tech. This new tech is been established as highly accurate as well. Say good bye to bulky sensors!
Just in time for Christmas, Textronics Inc. launched their new transmitter pod for use with the stretchy fabric electrode sensors that are knit into the company’s NuMetrex® brand of heart rate monitoring fitness apparel.The new transmitter snaps into a tiny pocket in NuMetrex sports bras and shirts, where it receives the heart rate signal from textile sensors located across the chest band area.
The best part: the NuMetrex system is compatible with most analog heart rate monitor watches including Polar, Nike, Reebok, Oregon Scientific, New Balance, Highgear and Accumen models, as well as gym-quality treadmills and elliptical machines.
Stacey Burr, CEO of Textronics explains: “By replacing the conventional hard plastic electrodes with soft, flexible textile sensors that are knit directly into the fabric of our clothing, we are able to offer the ..read more
The 3rd Space Vest is one of the coolest new devices out right now. The 3rd Space vest is a vest for computer gamers that will allow them to physically feel feel game events such as getting hit, stabbed, or punched.
The 3rd Space Vest, is developed by TN Games and was unveiled last week at the E for All video game exposition in Los Angeles.The technology inside the 3rd Space Vest was originally designed for use as a medical device by Dr. Mark Ombrellaro, a US surgeon and CEO of TN Games. Ombrellaro was working on a way to give medical exams via the Internet to prisoners, the elderly, those in rural communities and people that live in isolated regions with very limited access to medical services.
The medical version ..read more