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Italian cycling apparel company Nalini is launching its 2012 collection via an eight-minute YouTube video. Check out what Nalini has to offer this season.
Category: Apparel
Adidas Releases miCoach Bra in Stella McCartney Line
miCoach, a fitness-monitoring line from adidas, just got a new accessory for the ladies. A bra. The Stella McCartney sports collection from adidas will get a Tennis Performance Bra. Sensors integrated into the bra will monitor heart rate just like those annoying chest strap sensors. Continue reading Adidas Releases miCoach Bra in Stella McCartney Line
Nike Golf Tees Up Spring 2012 Collection
The weather that we’ve experienced in the last couple of weeks leaves no denying that Spring has sprung, and even if temperatures have dipped back the nice weather for hitting the fairways should be just around the corner and Nike Golf’s Spring 2012 Tour Performance Apparel Line is all about excellence, as it marries style with visible technology to provide every advantage in every condition. Continue reading Nike Golf Tees Up Spring 2012 Collection
Wiley X To Donate to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation
This week tactical and sport sunglass maker Wiley X announced that for the third year in a row the company would donate proceeds from the sale of its Lacey Sunglasses to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Thrroughout 2012, Wiley X will donate $3 from the sale of each polarized or non-polarized Lacey model to support the efforts of this long-standing and proven charitable organization.
Designed specifically for women, the Lacey is one of Wiley X’s best-selling models. Everyone who purchases a pair of stylish Lacey sunglasses receives more than just the most advanced vision protection on the market. They also receive the positive feeling that comes from supporting research directed towards finding a cure for the leading cause of cancer deaths among women. Continue reading Wiley X To Donate to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation
Breathable Shell for Hiking
While much of the country has experienced almost summer-like weather, the truth is that winter just ended officially this week. So before you break out the flip flops remember the calendar still says March and cool temperatures will likely return. Fear not because Montane’s Trojan and Athena jackets – which Backpacker Magazine called the “Most Breathable” mount shells – will allow you to fend off that springtime chill.
New to the Montane line for this season, the ultra-breathable shell, made of eVent membrane offers a streamlined design while still providing two large chest pockets to carry maps, snacks or of course the GPS and phone. Thanks to the lightweight fabric these weigh in at just 12.7 ounces and will keep you covered up for short alpine climbs or even long treks.
Light Up Gloves
We’ve seen bike lights, light up vests and even helmets that can signal, but now we’ve seen the LED Gloves, designed by Irene Posch. Known as the “Early Winter Night Biking Gloves” these could be ideal for late winter and early spring as well. These feature five LEDs in each glove and are powered by just a single cell battery.
These light up when the wearer clenches their fist and can help give drivers a little more indication on which way the rider is turning. It can help make a ride home at night a little safer.
Irene Posch
[Via Sociable: Bike safely with these LED gloves]
Kick Back Quad Sleeves Combine Compression and Ice
Compression and ice are well known treatments for recovery, but also work well for endurance training and events. It’s also difficult to combine the two, though 110% has a line of garments that have a compression layer plus a layer that you can tuck ice packs in for cooling. The newest item in the line is the Kick Back Quad Sleeves.
Kick Back Quad Sleeves is a compression sleeve that goes over your quads, or thighs. While the sleeves work well for recovery, they can also be used during longer, hotter competitions. 110% company founder David Green said he used the Kick Back Quad Sleeves during the Brazil 135, a 135 mile run that has that grueling combination of heat and climbing over 30,000 feet over the course of the 135 miles. “The sleeves provided incredible stability to my quads, especially on the downhill. It wasn’t until I temporarily removed them that I realized how critical they were in helping me finish this incredible challenge,” he said in a statement.
The sleeves combine zoned, gradient compression with 360 degree pockets to insert reusable ice packs. You can use the Kick Back Quad Sleeves for training, race day or recovery so you’re ready for the next day’s events. They’re able to be worn with other garments, such as under shorts, and serve athletes well for spot treatment to help quads and hamstrings.
Kick Back Quad Sleeves sell for $100 and include re-usable ice packs with an insulated carrying sleeve.
Airhead Helps You Retain Stylish Hair, Can’t Do a Thing For Your Biking Skills
Helmet hair is the price one pays for the enjoyment of riding a bike. You know, that weird hairstyle created from hair being flattened, compressed, and shaped under a helmet, similar to hat hair. To help you avoid a bad hair day from wearing a helmet, Two Wheel Cool has created the AirHead, a removable, reusable in-helmet accessory ($25) that increases ventilation to reduce perspiration by creating space around your hair. It’s designed to fit any helmet, whether for motorcycling, biking, or snowboarding.
“Helmet hair is a condition caused by high humidity ironing of the hair under a compressive helmet,” according to Twowheelcool. “The Airhead increases air ventilation to reduce perspiration while creating air space for the hair. The Airhead is easy to fit, anti-static, anti-bacterial and non-allergenic. The new Airhead comes in many different colours and styles to suit your lifestyle.”
Now, if they can only do something about bedheads in the morning.
Two Wheel Cool Official Website
[Via Ubergizmo: AirHead helps prevent “helmet hair”]
Get On My Back
Earlier today we noted exercises that can damage the back, so what about carrying a child? Toddlers often like the idea of hiking – at least in the beginning, but eventually they’ll need to be carried, and it seems most end up getting a piggyback ride as well. It is might be good for the rider, but it can be a pain in the neck and back.
Brothers Wayne and Jonny Lifshitsz had another idea, namely the Piggyback Rider, which provides an easier way to carry a child on your back. Functioning much like a backpack with a shoulder-mounted foot-bar to distribute the child’s weight at your core, it enables a more natural and upright walking posture, while the child stands safely on the wide textured foot-bar and can hold onto integrated shoulder handles. This harness system won the “Best New Product” award at the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market Show last year and this year will see new expansion of the line with a system that even allows for a bit of storage too. Continue reading Get On My Back
Light Up Your Workouts with LED Shoelaces
Although these LED shoelaces might make you look like an extra out of Tron, they can be incredibly helpful from a safety standpoint. If you’re working out in situations where visibility is poor, such as nighttime, these shoelaces make you stand out, similar to reflective clothing.
Known as the Hikaru LED Kutsuhimo, they light up in three patterns and are powered by a small battery attached to the tongue of the shoe. They’re also perfect for raves. (Do people still go to raves, or are we dating ourselves?)
[Via Ubergizmo: LED shoelaces perfect for night time jogging]
LED Jacket to Light the Way
It is hard not to think of the Robert Redford movie The Electric Horseman when seeing the Sporty Supaheroe cycling jacket, which features 64 integrated RGB LEDs and a stretchable and very wearable circuit board. The LED array can light up the way and display a variety of patterns.
This jacket, which is a project underway from the Utope Project reportedly works with an “acceleration sensor” and gyroscope to track the wearer’s movement, and even interact and respond according. If a rider slows down the lights can signal in red to indicate braking, while other movement can indicate turns and direction. For the rider the lights can also indicate an incoming phone call via an alert system.
The jacket is still very much in the developmental stage, but maybe it could change the way bike lights cast some illumination and how they are seen.
Utope Project Official Website
[Via Gizmag: Sporty Supaheroe cycle jacket boasts “intelligent” sensors and dynamic LEDs]
Protecting the Package with Kevlar
There is underwear that might be fun to wear, underwear that is meant to entice and then there is the “Blast Boxers,” underwear developed by the British military to offer special protection down there! The U.S. Army apparently liked what it saw and has developed the Pelvic Protection System or “Kevlar boxers” or “combat underpants.”
The underwear might not reduce chafing or provide better support, but rather is designed to help dismounted soldiers from the devastating effects of improvised explosive devices. According to the U.S. Army, “Soldiers who stepped on an IED might suffer injuries that required amputations which didn’t leave enough of a limb for a prosthetic leg, for instance. But those Soldiers were also suffering extensive damage to the perineum region, the part of the body that includes the anus and reproductive organs.” Continue reading Protecting the Package with Kevlar
Touchscreen Compatible Tactical Gloves
Protecting the hands for shooting and other tactical uses shouldn’t keep the wearer from using a tablet PC. This spring 5.11 Tactical, which provides apparel and equipment for law enforcement, is introducing the Screen Ops Gloves, which feature specially constructed fingertips that enable efficient and precise operation of capacitive resistance touch screen devices with all five fingertips.
These are compatible with products from cell phones to iPads, and feature a patented Tactical Touch seamless fingertip construction that assures superior dexterity, fit and comfort. The technology enables the wearer to operate touch screens with all five fingers while retaining the protection of their gloves. Three styles of the Screen Ops Gloves will be available this spring including the Patrol and Duty Gloves, which are constructed with seamless sheepskin palms; while the Tactical Gloves are made with seamless goatskin on the palm and fingers, with perforated leather padding over the knuckles and American made Kevlar fabric for added protection in tactical environments. All should fit… like a glove!