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TICKR Run to Reduce Injury

Fitness trackers can monitor your results and progress, while some can even track your stance, posture and form. Now Wahoo Fitness has introduced what it calls the world’s only heart rate monitor with activity tracking that provides real-time analysis of a runner’s form, helping to improve efficiency and avoid injury rates. The TICKR Run is Wahoo’s new heart rate monitor that pairs with Android and iOS smartphones and devices.

It utilizes triple axis motion sensors along with an accelerometer that together can measure a runner’s form in three planes: vertically, side-to-side and front-to-back. Those sensors and Wahoo’s fitness app for Android and iOS produce a measurement of each runner’s form called Running Smoothness, a sophisticated algorithm that assigns varying levels of importance to each axis and combines them into a single, easy-to-understand index.

With Running Smoothness athletes can improve their form to avoid unnecessary body motion, which improves efficiency and reduces the risk of common running injuries. Using Wahoo’s app, runners can even track Running Smoothness through their workout history to see improvements over long periods of time. Continue reading TICKR Run to Reduce Injury

Special Ops App

MOJO Outdoors has released a GPS powered Waterfowl app for Android and iOS devices. It is a hunting app that has been created by those who claim to know a thing or two about Waterfowl. It offers MOJO Maps, Legal Shooting Alarm, Duck Identification, Weather Pro, U.S. Migratory Bird Regulations and more.

The app even contains a flashlight feature and camo mirror to help apply the “war paint.”

MOJO Outdoors Official Website

Make a Move

PureGear is moving forward – with its PureMove sports armband that allows users to “wear” their music on their sleeve! This new case features a washable band with Dry+Flex technology and can securely hold an iPhone 5/5c/5S on the sleeve while still providing access to the screen, while an optional cord management clip offers storage for excess headset cables.

Pure-Gear PureMove Official Website

All Terrain Protection

Whether you actually head off the beaten path or just like to know you’re covered – make that your iPhone is covered – the DualTek XT for Extreme Terrain will ensure that the handset will arrive at the destination in one piece. This case is Military Standard Approved for its ability to protect the iPhone in harsh conditions including: exposure to dust, sand, raindrops, or splashes of water. The protective case maintains a sleek design for easy access to power buttons and ports.

It features multiple layers of shock absorbing protection, beginning with a tight-seal and weather resistant cover with an IP65 rating provide 360-degrees of dust and splash proof protection. The outer case is fully equipped with corner impact protection along with an attachable wristlet, making the DualTek XT the perfect companion for any outdoor adventure. It also offers non-slip rubber finish and side grips reduce the risk of your phone sliding out of your hands, even when they may be sweaty or wet. Continue reading All Terrain Protection

Put on the Brakes

Younger riders can’t always be seen in traffic and they might not always see what is coming at them. Even on bike paths parents often need to tell their children to slow down or stop. Now the MiniBrake, which was designed by a team of inventors in Hungry puts the brakes on the kid’s bike.

This is an easy to attach braking unit that is being developed through an Indiegogo funding campaign, and the idea is that it lets parents control the brakes and stop a child’s bike remotely. It can also be automatically activated should a child be more than 50 meters away. Continue reading Put on the Brakes

Ion2 Debut

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You need to keep an eye on the ball they say, but what about the club? Now you can watch the ball while technology watches your swing.

Full Swing Golf has released its new Ion2 Vision Technology, which keeps an eye on the club head and ball flight behavior. This all-new camera-based technology can thus display the vital information to any golfer and help improve the swing.

Ion2 Vision Technology gives you clubhead speed, clubface angle, club path information and extensive ball spin data, with an intuitive on-screen illustration of your club, so you can better understand your swing, your equipment choices and shot decisions. And with accurate and realistic ball flight accuracy, Ion2 shows your ball path shaped exactly as if it were outdoors.

Full Swing Golf Official Website

Microsoft Looks Smart

Microsoft is reportedly eyeing the wearables market and could be developing a smartwatch aimed at fitness. A newly release Microsoft patent shows what the watch could look like and potentially give a hint at its features. It can reportedly measure heart rate, biometric pressure, calories burned and more.

While this isn’t an official announcement it has long been rumored that this is a market Microsoft has been watching.

[Via Patent Bolt: Microsoft Reveals Future Smartwatch & Dock in new Patent]

Rip and Curl

Whether you hit the waves a few times a year or chase the endless summer looking for the big one, the Rip Curl Search GPS Surf Watch will let you track how many waves you rode, your top speed and even your location. This waterproof watch features built-in GPS and motion sensors that will allow you to get real time data, and back on the beach you can sync it with your mobile phone.

Rip Curl Official Website

Eye of the Cat

The CatEye Rapid X safety light won’t leave you in the dark. It can switch from steady mode to flashing mode automatically when the battery power decreases by 20 percent while the flashing mode can provide riders with a full extra hour of light.

Both the front and rear modes are USB-rechargeable and offer Lithium Polymer batteries to go the distance. The lights feature a total of six modes, and will run in high mode for about one hour, low mode for about five hours and in flashing mode for about 30 hours. There is a “Rapid” flash mode will run for about 16 hours, “pulse” flash for about the same amount of time and even a “vibration” flash mode will run for about eight hours. CatEye claims that the pulse mode is “peloton friendly” so fellow riders won’t be blinded by the light.

CatEye Official Website

Weekend Reading List (05.03.2014): Passing Lane, Feature Friendly, Sit Back

Passing Lane

From Runner’s World: When Passing Another Runner in a Race, Should You Offer Encouragement?
They might appreciate it. But, then again, they might not. Continue reading Weekend Reading List (05.03.2014): Passing Lane, Feature Friendly, Sit Back

Pyle it On

Pyle Audio has shown that it knows a thing or two about rugged outdoor audio gear and now the company has introduced its eXpo Hi-Speed HD Action Camera, which it calls the perfect companion for action sports enthusiasts looking to re-live every hairpin turn or monster jump, while sharing their hi-resolution photos and videos with family and friends.

This 20megapixel camera/camcorder features CMOS image sensor technology, while it can record 1080p video, and can shoot at 60, 50, 30 or 25 frames-per-second. It also features a 4X zoom and invertible screen display, are controlled via a 2.0” LCD touch screen, and it can be controlled via Wi-Fi remotely from a smartphone. Continue reading Pyle it On

Watch and Learn

There are plenty of cardio-focused fitness trackers on the market, but a heart rate monitor and calorie counter only goes so far at the gym. This is where the GYMWATCH comes in. It is a new fitness tracker, which is being developed through an Indiegogo campaign to measure strength and motion. It is thus aimed at those who hit the gym to gain weight and mass instead of losing it. The GYMWATCH is worn on an armband and features a built-in accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer to record movement and strength during a workout.

It is paired with a smartphone so users can monitor the process – but of course not phone it in! Video after the jump

ROK Solid

Rokform has launched a Kickstarter campaign that has a goal of bringing out a universal mounting system for the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 – which will provide hands free solutions for those with active lifestyles. This can include taking the mobile handset on a bike or on other adventures – and ensure it is “Rok steady” as well. Video after the jump