Entries Tagged as 'Oddities'

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Weird fitness machine - Is there hope for full time bloggers?

You’re afraid to get too bold from blogging? With Springflex you can now do your workout directly in front of your PC. Attach the machine like a vise on your desk and start pumping. The SkyMall page says you can do over 120 exercises with it. Wow! My first guess was no more than 5 [...]

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Probably the only geeky sport gadget which doesn’t improve your fitness

I know, this video has been around the net for at least 3 days now and you may have seen it already
I’m talking about the video “Exoskeleton Turns Humans Into Terminators”!
It’s about a robotic exoskeleton, developed by Sarcos, which mimics every move the person inside does! My only concern is, that it’s [...]

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Workout With Your Baby or Moms Get Fit

I just found this video and I think it’s worth sharing with you and I guess it has the potential to go viral
It’s about two men sharing their “experise” about losing belly fat after childbirth. Just watch it

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Baseball USB Flash Drive - 1GB

When it comes to baseball a lot of people start going crazy. Obviously the Pretec product development team was in a similar state of mind or just watched a good game before creating this product.
Unfortunately it’s no longer listet on the pretec homepage and I was not able to find an online retail store, but [...]

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Nice ping pong table - Not so geeky but cool

This nice ping pong has been around the net for some weeks already but it’s so cool that I have to mention it here. As you can see you can play ping pong between two rooms.
Of course you can flip the table and you’ll have the door closed again. The only downside is that one [...]

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Attach your mobile phone to your drinking bottle!

A company named BevyTech LLC made a very cool bottle named Gadget Bottle. You can attach your phone, your mp3 player or even your digital camera to the bottle. Of course you have to be be cautious because of the liquid.
It holds 22 ounces or ~ 650 ml and it costs 8.25 USD (plus shipping).
I [...]

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Push-Up Counter - Funny, but usefull?

This is one of the oddest sport gadget I’ve ever seen. It’s manufactured by Konami and sold in Japan. If you’re in Japan you can buy it for ~ 15 $.

This gadget can count the number of push-ups you make. Obviously. As you can see on the image, you have to go down until [...]