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Science Over Showers

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Most first-world inhabitants take showers every day. We often take for granted access to running hot water and soap.

Sometimes, when we’re out in the world working or playing, we get dirty. It’s not like other modern amenities like phones or internet that we have access to at all times…

…or is it?

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Scuba Goggles For The Social Media Age

Since we all know we can’t go five minutes without updating our facebooks, tweeting our twitters, or shamefully checking our myspaces, then constantly posting pictures of our where abouts is something that is pretty common practice at this point. Well the final frontier of picture posting has finally been conquered. These goggles will allow you to take bad ass underwater photos and videos and then upload to your computer via USB as soon as you are above water.  This means it will only be mere moments before all of your friends know you maybe saw some fish 100 yards away. If you are not into scuba diving well then you can easily take these bad boys on your next spring break and finally start your amateur voyeur career in the various pools because we all know that is exactly what you thought of when you first saw these. Buy them here now!

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The Sleeping Bag From Heaven

Well the makers of the First Ascent Peak XV down-suit must have a direct link into my brain because a bed you can wear is something I have been longing for as long as I can remember. I hope my family will understand that I will not be getting them any gifts this year so that I can save up for the $1000 price tag the last suit I’m ever going to wear has on it.

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3 Exercises to do When Trapped in a Mine

By now, you’ve heard about the Chilean miners who were trapped underground for months and survived with the help of many others. Well, one of TechVert’s sponsors, Zephyr Technology was able to help the Chilean miners by monitoring their vital signs with their product and sending it wirelessly to a base above ground where doctors could manage the miners’ health. Pretty cool if you’re trapped in a mine for months.

So, how did doctors keep them healthy, oxygenated, and monitored?

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How the ‘First Down’ Yellow Line Works

Possibly one of the greatest additions to the viewer experience of football games has been the addition of the digital first down marker, or, the yellow line. Being able to know where on the field a runner needs to cross in order to get a first down has put an end to many an argument and enhanced the information a viewer can take in while watching the game.

But how does it work? Well, it’s complicated, but this video from NBC does a good job of explaining how they get that yellow line onto the field and not only that, but how they get the yellow line to appear as if it is really on the field, underneath the players.

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SidewaysBike Is Not Your Father’s Bicycle

Besides being the weirdest bike you’ll see all day, Michael Killian’s SidewaysBike is either a revolutionary way to get from place to place or a quirky apparatus to work on your balance.

Introducing a new bicycle invention by myself, Michael Killian. This bicycle is ridden forward and is balanced by using human Left to Right balance. This bicycle uses independant (non linked) Front and Rear steering. The ride is very wavy sort of like skiing with a capacity to drift to the right or left. The front and rear steering makes the bike much more maneuverable than a single steer bike. Your hands are by your side and you don’t exert a lot of pull on the steering. Its sort of like riding a horse where you cannot lean on the reins but all body movements come out of your seat and saddle. The saddle is nessicarily a unicycle saddle (You would slip forward off a regular bike saddle). I would predict that the audience for this bike would be teenagers to young adults.

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Bikers Ride in Honor of 28 Million Living With Cancer

The final stage of the Tour de France was flooded with color but today, the color black is what stood out from the pack. Led by cancer survivor and seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, Team RadioShack started the finale by swapping their official red-and-gray racing kit in favor of exclusive black “28″ jerseys, dedicating their ride to the 28 million people worldwide currently living with cancer. Although race officials mandated that the team return to their official Team RadioShack kits, the messaging still broke through the pack.

“RadioShack’s partnership with Lance Armstrong has always been about more than cycling. It’s about engaging our customers and more than 35,000 associates in the global fight against cancer,” said Lee Applbaum, chief marketing officer for RadioShack Corp. “We understand that for 28 million people around the world, the race is not over.”

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Training to Reach Peak Physical Performance

When it comes to achieving peak physical performance, nothing is more important than maximizing your training. In the past, this has been done by guess work and more professionally, by going through a series of intrusive tests to see where you peak and what exactly you should be working on while you train.

Now, however, using Zephyr Technology‘s Physiological Status Monitor (PSM), you can track your performance while you train and get loads of data including heart rate, respiratory rate, skin temperature, galvanic skin response, body position (upright vs. lying down), activity level (i.e., moving fast, moving slow, or stationary), and location. Pretty much everything you need to analyze and train for peak performance.

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