Samsung unveiled the new Gear Fit and wow, it’s impressive. Not just its features, but its design. It’s a fitness tracker, so the now-standard movement, heart rate and sleep patterns will be recorded. More than that, the Fit is water-resistant and includes phone notifications, timer and stopwatch all on a curved OLED screen. It forgoes all the Dick Tracy-type wizadry in favor of functions people actually need and use, all included in a stylish band that they will actually wear.
Category: Tech
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These Headphones Will Cost A Lot To Lose
Wearable technology, it’s a thing now. Apple’s smartwatch might monitor your health, Google plans to make smart contact lenses, the list is endless. The Dash ($199), while not revolutionary, takes a small step into the future with these in-ear Bluetooth headphones. They have all the requisite headphone features: noise cancellation, 4GB of onboard storage, ear bone transduction microphone.
What sets it apart are the in-built health and body sensors. These help track your heart rate, oxygen saturation and energy expenditure. What they haven’t figured out is how to keep us from losing headphones. There’s a reason most cost $10.
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Vifa Wireless Speakers Another Great Design From The Danes
Vifa has been developing speaker systems for high-end brands for over 80 years. Now, the Danish company has gone from understudy to main actor with its own line of wireless speakers. Each will be named after certain Nordic capitals. The first, the Copenhagen, comes wrapped in fabric from Kvadrat, a famous European textile manufacturer. The exterior houses a matte-colored aluminum housing. Each speaker comes with Bluetooth connectivity, Apple AirPlay, embroidered volume buttons and six different color selections.
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Keep An Eye On The Kids With This Motion Alarm
Kids. Never in one place. Always running around with those legs and all.
Use the Sammy Screamer to keep an eye on them. This motion detector can be placed anywhere. A door, a bag, whatever. Once it detects motion, it plays a scream while sending a notification to your smartphone at the same time. Get multiple Sammy Screamers and make the house sound like Halloween.
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A Speaker Bubble For Full Audio Immersion
Noise-cancellation headphones. They don’t cancel noises that really disturb people, like the boss’ voice or the caterwauling of a wanna-be American Idol neighbor. That’s when something like the AudiOrb comes in handy. Studio Total (ST), a Scandinavian lab, has invented the first loudspeaker that listeners sit inside.
Eighteen mounted speakers blast whatever music the occupant desires. It’s like a spherical womb. Comfort is key also. Tempur pillows that conform to the body line the interior and heighten relaxation.
Only 5 will be created, so those needing a break from noise pollution need to act fast. Also, no word yet on how long someone can breathe inside the bubble, or how more oxygen gets inside. However, that’s just a minor fact.
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Print Carbon Fiber Car Parts With the Mark One 3D Printer
3D printing will revolutionize the world. What does it mean for FedEx, UPS and USPS? How much more productive will society become? Will we ever go to stores again or will we become a community of hermits quietly printing parts in our basements?
All good questions because new inventions like the MarkForged Mark One will quickly force society to answer them. This new 3D printer can print carbon fiber, fiberglass, nylon and PLA (a thermoplastic) materials. That means printing everything from car parts to phone cases to really strong, but uncomfortable, condoms. The only limit is your imagination.
The machine itself looks straight out of the future. An aluminum body, a translucent printing bed, stunning to look out and (hopefully) amazing to use as well. Pre-orders start now at $5,000 with shipments going out later this year.
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Keep Track Of Anything (Or Anyone) With The Bringrr Tracker
It’s a pain to lose or forget things. Like Grandpa Simpson, just how many times has he gone missing? If Homer clipped a Bringrr tag onto poor ol’ Abe, there’d be one less recurring sketch on The Simpsons.
Bringrr is both an app and hardware. There’s two parts to the hardware, a car charger which acts as home base and Bringrr tags. Any items you want to bring when you go out, just tag it with the Bringrr tag.
Once you start up your car, Bringrr searches for all tagged items. It’ll notify you if anything’s missing. Meanwhile, the app checks to see if your phone’s in the vicinity.
Think of all the things you can tag. Wallets. Backpacks. Pets. Girlfriends and boyfriends. Anything you need to keep an eye on.
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The PhoneSoap Charger Recharges and Disinfects Your Stinky Phone
Shall we play a game? Pick up your friend’s phone. Look at it. Hold it up to your ear. Now put that phone up to your nose and inhale like it’s your grandmother’s homemade spaghetti sauce. Smell that? That’s months of built-up ear oil funk on that cellphone screen. And you just put it up to your ear. Sick!
Why walk around with a dirty phone corroded with ear oil funk. Ear oil funk is the #1 cause of pimples on your ear. Fact. Disinfect that nasty telecommunications unit with the PhoneSoap Charger ($50). While the unit charges up the phone inside, two UV-C lamps inside “pass through the cell walls of bacteria and virus to impair their DNA.” When that happens, the cells die, leaving a clean, funk-free phone.