Life Fitness Track and Go for the Home

You won’t need to trek down to the gym to Track and Go. Life Fitness has announced a new line of consumer cardio equipment featuring two new console options, Track and Go. This new product line-up is designed to answer consumer demand for greater fitness tracking and entertainment features. These energy-efficient consoles are now available on 10 Life Fitness consumer equipment models and include a variety of advanced technology features including iPod/iPhone docking stations, family fitness customization features and Virtual Trainer connectivity.

“As consumers look for ways to enhance their workouts, Life Fitness will continue to develop new and innovative fitness product offerings,” said Dan Wille, Life Fitness vice president, global marketing, product, and business development. “The Track and Go Consoles not only provide a great workout experience, but also one that can be customized to the individual, allowing them to get exactly what they need from the machine and ultimately their workout.” Continue reading Life Fitness Track and Go for the Home

One Swift Way to Move Around

It is hard to believe that the scooter craze hasn’t died down, and harder still to believe that there is still yet more innovation in scooters. But our friends at BikeRadar.com noted that there is a new game in town – or at least from the town of Manchester in the U.K. Swifty Scooters is rolling out the SwiftyOne scooter, which is designed for fast travel on flat ground.

Made by the husband and wife team of Jason and Camila Iftakhar, this isn’t the basic scooter either, as it features 16-inch wheels and more response steering, which according to the makers can travel as fast as a bike on flat ground. The scooter can fold up and roll on the front wheel. Continue reading One Swift Way to Move Around

Sony Move Bundle for $99.99

If you don’t have a PlayStation Move now you should move on over to the store and pick one up. Sony has announced that beginning this week it will be offering a Move bundle. For about $100 you can get the PlayStation Move controller, PlayStation Eye camera and two Move-compatible titles, Sports Champions and Medieval Moves: Deadmund’s Quest.

Sports Champions remains a classic fan-favorite Move title and includes six challenging events including Disc Golf, Gladiator Duel, Beach Volleyball, Archery, Table Tennis and Bocce; while Medieval Moves is an action-adventure game that has been designed specifically for PlayStation Move. Gamers must help Prince Edmund protect his kingdom against the evil sorcerer Morgrimm and his army of skeletons. And instead of mere button mashing, gamers will  use the PS Move motion controller to sword fight, shoot arrows, and fling throwing stars in your epic battles. This one also offers full 3D support, so break out the glasses if got ‘em!

All you’ll need is a TV and the PlayStation 3 of course, but for $99.99 MSPR this is a good way to get your inner gamer off the couch and moving!

Nike Golf Put Performance First With Golf Bags

While we still think a good game of golf means walking 18 holds, there are those who still prefer a golf cart, and Nike Golf now has a new Performance Cart bag, designed for the golfer who chooses to venture out onto the course on wheels.

The new bag features an innovative design, with a 14-way full-length divider system that provides separation and protection for every iron, wedge and metal wood in the bag, along with a new integrated external putter well to ensure easy access to the most used club during a round. The Nike Performance Cart bag features the new Flip & Grip system, while the bag offers a 9.5-inch oval top that allows for the new Nike cart bag to sit properly in a powered golf cart or trolley. To prevent slippage while the Nike Performance Cart bag is in the cart, a new dual-injected TPR bottom provides greater traction. Continue reading Nike Golf Put Performance First With Golf Bags

Made in America: K-Edge Cycling Solutions

The Boise, Idaho based cycling component brand, K-Edge Cycling Solutions, was created from a singular and focused ambition. The goal was to help an Olympic cycling athlete secure a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. To see how this happened and the resulting product we take a quick look to France, Austria, China, and return to the USA for how it all played out.

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Wiley X – Veteran Owned Company Calls on All Americans to Honor the Service and Sacrifice of our Veterans

Today is Veterans Day, which was established after the end of the First World War. It is a day for our nation to recognize the service and sacrifice of the millions of American veterans who have served their country at home and aboard. Wiley X, a veteran-owned company with a quarter century of tradition providing ballistic eye protection to U.S. soldiers throughout the world, wants to remind all Americans not to forget the true meaning behind this important day. And we want to help them spread the word. Continue reading Wiley X – Veteran Owned Company Calls on All Americans to Honor the Service and Sacrifice of our Veterans

Velocity Rims Coming to America

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Velocity Worldwide, Inc. has recently announced that it will shutter production in Brisbane, Australia by the end of November 2011 and by February 2012 will begin manufacturing its bicycle rims in Jacksonville, Florida. This move will allow Velocity to produce custom orders quicker and get them into the customer’s hands in a shorter amount of time. Along with speedier production times, Velocity will be the only U.S. produced aluminum rim in the cycling industry.

To oversee production at Velocity’s new manufacturing factory, Tom Black, the founder of Velocity, will be relocating from Australia to Florida, while Velocity’s distribution center will continue to operate out of its worldwide headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This won’t be the end of the line down under for Velocity either. The Australian facility will remain a distribution center for the Asian and Australian markets. Video after the jump

Oregon Scientific Mounts ATC Mini Waterproof Camera

These days if you participate in an extreme sport, you may not be a part of it unless you film the action. Now there’s several cameras that make that bit easy. The newest is the ATC Mini from Oregon Scientific. The ATC Mini is a waterproof video camera that is mountable on many objects including helmets and weighs only 70 grams.

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An App to Diagnosis a Concussion

Of the hundreds of thousands of apps that are available for the Apple iOS and the Google Android, how many are truly useful? That depends on how you look at it, but a better question might be how many have the potential to save a life? There are not many, but that trend is changing as it is becoming more obvious that smartphones and tablets are here to stay.

The Concussion Recognition and Response app from PAR Inc. is one such app and is designed specifically for coaches and parents to help them  identify if an individual is exhibiting the signs and symptoms of a suspected concussion in under five minutes.

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Thursday Reading List (11/10/2011)

Welcome to a weekly digest of web links I think are worth checking out. These items include articles, images, and video. Please comment on what you find interesting. If you have something to share, please submit links of interest to mike@kineticshift.com.

 

British TV Ad for Christmas

This week sees the Christmas installment of the British store Halfords ad ‘ That’s Helpful, That’s Halfords’ campaign, with a 30 second Bike TV commercial, designed to encourage parents to come to Halfords to buy bikes for their children’s Christmas presents. The young girl is shown riding and enjoying her new bike in all seasons and weather. So take a cue from her and get out and scream while you are at it.

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A Pack Fit for a King or Queen

A backpack that is can carry everything usually weighs a bit itself, but ironically Granite Gear’s upcoming Crown 60 doesn’t feel like a ton of granite on the back. In fact the soon-to-be-released pack weighs just 2.2 pounds and yet can hold up to 60 liters of gear instead.

The Crown 60 is made of water-resistant sil-nylon Cordura, while straps and buckles are scaled down to further save on the weight, but still features a contoured back panel for added comfort. This panel also can do double duty as a camp pad, thus making for one less thing to bring along. The Bard may have written “heavy hangs the head that wears the crown,” but in this case the Crown 60 doesn’t hang heavy on the back.

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Looxcie 2 Allows You to Record What You See

At first glance the Looxcie 2 appears to be a BlueTooth hands free headset, but it is actually much more. It is a video camera as well as hands free device all in one small package that is being advertised as the “world’s first ‘Wear & Share’ video cam.” The Looxcie 2 is worn over the ear and allows the user to capture video while engaging in just about any activity. If something happens that you simply must share through your social network, you can do it instantly by uploading the video using your smartphone.

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SRAM pART Project to go to Auction

There is an old saying, “I don’t know art, but I know what I like.” We may not know art either, but we did like the SRAM pART Project that we saw at Interbike. This project consisted of sculptures made of bicycle components and now SRAM President Stanley R. Day is making sure that the art does some good.

He has joined with World Bicycle Relief Founder F.K. Day to announce an exhibition and auction at Chicago’s Gallery 1028 to take place on Wednesday, November 30. This will be the grand finale of the SRAM pART Project, with the proceeds, including the admission fee of $134 fee, going to World Bicycle Relief – that price essentially is the cost of one donated bicycle. Continue reading SRAM pART Project to go to Auction