Nike+ SportsWatch GPS – Gives You the Extra Push You Need

Perhaps, one of your New Year’s resolutions for 2011 is to be healthier or to exercise more. And so, you list down all the things that you can do to achieve this goal – eat a balanced diet, go to the gym, jog every morning, and walk daily for at least 30 minutes. That list can very well do the trick but why not add one more? Equip yourself with personal cool gadgets like the Nike+ SportsWatch GPS to give you that extra push you need!

Winning two Innovation awards in CES 2011 Health and Wellness and Personal Electronics categories, the Nike+ SportsWatch GPS is the best gadget partner you’ll need to keep track of your running activity. It’s not enough that you do running everyday. You must be able to keep track of your progress so you will not lose sight of your goal. And this SportsWatch GPS will do just that – track what you do, track how you do it, and then motivate you to do it again and again. In times when you don’t feel like running, simply look at the props you got for your personal records and the onscreen run reminders to get you up and running.

As for accuracy, this device actually combines GPS accuracy with the shoe-based Nike+ sensor to track pace, time, calories burned, heart rate, and distance. Plus, if you want to view your running history, set new running goals, and interact with other runners worldwide.

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LG Touchscreen Watch Phone Will Support 3G, Speech Recognition, Little Girl Fingers

Details of a new LG watch phone, likely to be announced at CES, havetrickled out through the company's Korean site. And surprise! It looks hard to use. But not—and this is important—unusable.

The first thing to notice is the specs: unlike last time around, they're actually pretty solid. The GD910, as it's called, will support 3G, HSDPA, Bluetooth, text-to-speech and speech-to-text, and finally, videoconferencing via a front-mounted camera.

These capabilities, far from being the useless feature bloat that we see on gimmicky hardware like this, seem to be geared toward making this wrist piece bearable. Don't want to fiddle with little watch buttons to make a call? Use the touchscreen. Don't want to type on a tiny on-screen keypad? Talk to your phone. Don't want to walk around with a watch to your face like some kind of portly, neckbearded, wolfshirted FBI agent? Hook up a Bluetooth headset and you'll just look like a nerdy soccer dad. And videoconferencing, mercifully built in, is probably the most important feature to have on a quasi-spy gadget like this.

That said, there are still a few problems that will be unavoidable in this form-factor, the largest of which LG has implicitly acknowledged with their product photos: unless you are a young child with young child fingers, don't plan on having an easy go of it.

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Nike+ SportWatch GPS

Nike and TomTom have collaborated to create the ultimate running watch, the Nike+ SportWatch GPS. The watch records your performance with a simplistic interface combined with accurate pace and distance data aided by TomTom’s GPS technology. The watch is compatible with both Mac and PC platforms. The Nike+ SportWatch GPS will be released in the U.S. and the U.K. on April 1st, 2011. 

Via: Nike

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