Inflatable fenders, finally!!

Thank you Topeak!!!!

Yes, now you can roll with a fender on your bike the whole time, and when it gets wet and slick, just pump up the fender and away you go.

Sure, you think bikes aren’t that impressive, well,, you’re wrong. The problem is when you’re stuck out in the rain riding your bike, you get a skunk style trail from the bottom of your butt up your back to your helmet. Outside of that (and the incessant downpour) the riding is the same, (ok there’s reduced grip and you’ll likely be soaked, but one thing at a time ok.

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If you enjoy the odd game of arrows but not the maths that comes with it (unless you’re playing round the clock) then this dart scoreboard will make your life appropriately simpler.

The Electronic Touchpad Darts Scorer resembles a normal dartboard but instead of throwing arrows at it you poke the matching segment with your pinkie and it will calculate the score for you. So instead of struggling with what’s 17×3 you can concentrate on drinking your next pint (just like the pros).

You can get it from Drink Stuff for £42.99, real dartboard, darts and beer belly sold separately.

My friend Juergen over at Random Good Stuff told me about these very cool looking Skate Sliders. They might look cool but for me at least they’ve got broken bones written all over them.

Check out the video, thanks again RGS.

We’ve featured a couple of fishing gadgets in the past and with this latest one, the FishCam, I can’t decide whether it’s going to be a boon to fishing or just another absolutely wacky idea.
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When the Nintendo Wii was released, most people wondered how motion sensing would really work in a video game, and most of them had a copy of Wii Sports bundled to try. Fortunately for Nintendo, nearly everyone who picked up Wii Sports realized how well the controls worked, with boxing providing hours of entertainment on end (along with broken TVs due to flying Wii-motes, but that is another can of worms). I guess it was only a matter of time before gaming hardware manufacturers thought about making boxing gloves that actually fit in the Wii-mote for a more authentic, bone crunching experience.

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Yeah, I said it!

Lovie Smith, the Head coach of the Chicago Bears (they’re playing in the Super Bowl this Sunday,, American Football,,, never mind).

Anyway, he has been wearing a sideline jacket that everyone has been asking about and no one had a clue about. Well I finally sorted it. Thanks to Paul Lukas the proprietor of Uniwatch, a great blog (oh yeah, he writes for ESPN too) that’s all about what athletes are wearing (though I think he could write a bit more about the ridiculous new Mclaren race suits, but we aren’t talking about that now,, poor Fernando & Lewis).

This jacket he’s wearing is really cool, or better than that, it’s warm. As some of you know, Chicago Illinois is known for having cold winters,, very cold (it’s the freaking Windy City!) This jacket from Reebok has air pockets inside and pumps for inflating them in the pockets for inflating them.

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GTX Corporation will be unveiling its new line of Xplorer Smart GPS footwear at the beginning of next month in Las Vegas. The Xplorer aims to usher in the next generation of GPS smart shoes by incorporating smaller and yet more powerful GPS chipsets inside the shoe itself to provide a more accurate reading. What are some of the more practical ways in which the Xplorer shoes could be used? Take children for example - they tend to wander around large shopping malls, often leaving parents distressed when their kids go missing. How about a day out at the park? Sometimes children get carried away playing hide-and-seek, that adults are more often than not the exasperated party trying to locate them young ‘uns.

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It might look like a standard fisherman’s stool but this one has a subtle and useful difference, instead of having lots of different compartments for fishing paraphernalia it has the more useful inclusion of an integrated cooler bag. So when you’re waiting for the next bite you can have a cool beer instead of a decidedly dodgy warm one.

You can get the cooler bag stool from Shakespeare , anything that makes fishing slightly more interesting has got to be a good thing in my book.