More than One Small Step
Forget the pedometer, no one cares how many steps you’ve taken in a day if you can’t find any relevant meaning in your movement combined with the rest of your day. That’s where the Fitbit comes in.
The Fitbit can calculate anything from the miles you’ve traveled and the calories you’ve burned to how long it took you to fall asleep and how many times you woke up in between. For $99 the Fitbit is definitely a calculating time savor, and with the health obsessions sweeping the states I can’t see how Fitbit can lose. I don’t know how I’d feel about wearing the little thing around all the time, but hey, it’s not as ugly as it could be.
Tech Going to the Dogs
All dogs wear collars with tags, and we pray to god we don’t lose them (the dogs not the collars) even though that would be the one time the tag would be useful. No more, now dog tags are more than just for identification.
The Snif Tag is a dog tag for the 21st century (or so it would like to seem). Basically the Snif tag comes with a whole kit, a tag for your dog’s collar, a base station, and all the other accessories you could need for a dog tag or base station. What’s the base station for you may ask? Well, that’s what makes this doggy ID so tech worthy. The Snif tag makes it possible (for $150) to see your dog’s activities for the day, week, or month. That’s right, the collar tracks your dog’s activity level and then through the base station and your computer shows you how much he walks and sleeps. You can even compare your dog’s activity online with other Snif owners.
Is this silly? Yes. Is this unnecessary? Yes. Expensive? Yes (but still amusing). Maybe if they added a GPS tracker so I could find my own dog it’d be worth the $150.
Tech over Nature
No one likes mosquitoes. Many people will put up with other bugs and pests just because they know those pests eat mosquitoes. It’s one of those small summer time irritations that can hinder the fun surrounding everything else. Mosquitoes are ugly for one, annoying, and let us not forget that they bight.
Tech hasn’t quite been able to repel mosquitoes as much as one would hope. I mean we can visit the moon, why can’t we free ourselves of the bug bite? At least there’s a new means of supposed relief, heated relief that is. The gadget looks like a giant clickable pen that you press to your bite and click to “neutralize insect injected proteins” and stop the itch (supposedly).
It can’t hurt to try that’s for sure calamine lotion has never really done the job for me. At $16.99 the price for a trial isn’t too absurd either.
A Globe in the Palm of Your Hand
It’s all about portability, function, and style when it comes to gadgets today and Moixa’s sphere is just what the doctor ordered.
With a planned release sometime next year the description at least presents an interactive display about the size and shape of a baseball. The sphere can also fold flat and comes with net connections and a multi touch surface. Moixa totally has me on board.
Forget the iPhone this looks way more fun.
Building a Picture
Lego has partenered with Digital Blue to bring the world a new line of tech gadgets, all adorned with the lego touch. That’s right, MP3 players, walkie talkies, and cameras all built from lego bricks.
The gadgets supposedly come out this summer and are aimed at kids, but that doesn’t mean kids are gonna be the only ones buyin. Legos are always awesome.
Unfortunately these newest gadgets are just that, gadgets. Despite the sweetness of the design you can’t redesign anything yourself. The bricks don’t come apart, they just stick together forever and look cool.
