Comedian Ellen DeGeneres in her early days as a standup comedian told the joke, “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.” Funny joke, but for many people this is no laughing matter.
Fortunately the same technology that can allow athletes to know how where and how far they’ve run can be used to keep track of family members with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. Swiss-based u-blox has created Watchie, a GPS-based device that can be worn by patients as a watch and provide real time GPS tracking for caregivers.
Advanced features can include “safe zones” that can be set to alert caretakers should the patient leave a designated zone, as well as a G-Senor that detects sudden movement should the wearer fall down. Best of all the Watchie’s battery will run for weeks, so even those active grandmother’s will likely tire out before the GPS gives out.
Heading into a season of water sports and fun doesn’t have to mean the action happens without music. The G-GO from G-Project is a portable, water resistant Bluetooth speaker that’s easy to take waterside and connects to any Bluetooth device to play music. 
Dubbed the Nightfire, this incredibly small flashlight from River Rock Designs is just slightly longer than its battery and let it blasts away with 100 lumens. And impressively it is powered by just a single AAA battery.
While everything around us seems to be going wireless, when it comes to headphones most are us are still tethered. Anyone who uses headphones during a workout or activity knows how cumbersome they can be when they’re flailing around. New wireless technologies like Bluetooth, however, have allowed headphone manufacturers to cut the cord. One such product is the Phiaton PS 20 BT Stereo Headset ($149), a pair on in-ear headphones that are Bluetooth 3.0 compatible, which provides amazing sound quality, according to Phiaton.
Brother Randy and Michael Gregg have come up with a novel new way to hunt – not with a rifle but with a camera. Actually more to the point it is a camera that looks like a rifle. It allows a hunter to get a “Kill Shot” without actually making a kill.
We’ve seen numerous ways of bringing a laptop when traveling on a bike. Most solutions call for the computer to ride in a bag or side pouch, and last December we saw the 
Does the military use smartphones? Actually there is more and more crossover and likely some military personnel as well as those who work alongside the military might use an iPhone. So the good news is that iCA have introduced the iCA Military Edition, a camera case that turns the handset into a camera lookalike.
Heart rate monitors can share a lot of information, but trying to read it while working out means taking the eyes off the road. While that can mean taking the eyes of the prize, it can also be dangerous. Now Heart Zones USA CEA Sally Edwards has announced the founding of ZONING Fitness, which will release four wrist-top heart rate monitors that utilize the ZONING fitness program.
There is nothing like sitting around the campfire, having the stars overhead and the iPad on your lap. That doesn’t sound right, but as more and more people take the iPad to the great outdoors some companies have stepped up to make it a little easier to use.
While probably not much of a problem this season, in years with deep snow or when regions get lots of natural snow, some skiers might find themselves trying to find lost skis. This no doubt cuts down on the fun. It seems like a small problem, but enough that Ski Retriever has come to the rescue with a homing system.
Last week our friends at BikeRadar.com got us all excited, and we helped spread the rumors that Geoff Kabush was spotted possibly riding a prototype Shimano Di2 XTR groupo – in other words it sounded like the popular electronic shifters for the road were going off-road.