I recently covered the Lightlane, a device that can project a bike lane for bikers. This improves bike safety, just like the new Nike Hindsight.

The Nike Hindsight are special glasses designed to increase peripheral vision on each side by 25 percent. I suppose that these will look better than the mirrors that I see on some types of biker helmets.

I don’t think mirrors are involved in making the Hindsight work. These glasses use Fresnel lenses, which are the same wide aperture and short focal length type used by lighthouses. So you could probably see what is behind you in some sort of curvy fashion, I would imagine.

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AT&T has long taken pride by being the USA’s largest Wi-Fi network provider, offering over 20,000 domestic hot spots and more than 90,000 hot spots globally via roaming partners, and this time round they have announced recent upgrades to AT&T Park’s Giants Digital Dugout. What’s the Digital Dugout? It is actually an interactive, in-stadium site for San Francisco Giants fans that offers a much more enhanced visitor experience, thanks to special applications and exclusive content delivered throughout the ballpark over complimentary AT&T Wi-Fi access for any ballpark visitor with a Wi-Fi enabled device. Yes, you read that right – as long as your PSP, DS Lite, cellphone, PDA, netbook, notebook or other device with Wi-Fi capability is in good working order, you can gain access to a host of features shown right after the jump.

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The E-Ink Coaches Playboard could give coaches a high tech edge.

From our friends at Yanko comes designer Gordon Yeh’s game clipboard that utilizes the newly developed technology known as “E-Ink” to create a digital clipboard for hi-tech coaching on the sidelines.

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Sports fans will know how it feels like as they plan their social schedule around their favorite teams’ game times, which makes the following range of Game Time Schedule Watches an absolute must have. These watches already come programmed with the schedule of your team of choice, alongside the schedule of other teams for the particular sport so that you can watch other can’t-miss matchups even if they’re from a rival team. Apart from showing off today’s game time and opponent on the main screen, you can also opt to scroll through to view upcoming games, games from the past and other team’s schedules. Available for all major sports including NFL football, NHL hockey, MLB baseball, NBA basketball or NASCAR racing, these watches retail for more than $80 a pop.

Craziest Gadgets

The Glastonbury Solar Concept Tent definitely qualifies as Coolest Gadgets material, as it has more gadgets on it than MacGyver’s knife. The U.K. company Orange has called the Glastonbury as “the tent of the future”, but this is one that I want to take “out on the rough” right now.

The tent has photovoltaic fabric, specially coated solar threads woven into the fabric. It can capture the rays of the sun and use them for some juice later. Yes, you don’t worry about your GPS or mobile phone going dead on your next camping trip. Not only that, the tent has a wireless control hub that keeps track of the energy generated and consumed. This hub has an LCD screen and even has a wireless Internet signal.

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In today’s age of Twitter and Facebook, nothing is private anymore. We’ve already reported on devices like Tweet-a-Watt, that displays a user’s power consumption online for all the world to see. I can only imagine that this leads to tweets like “nice job saving the planet, waster” or “everyone should be as green as you are”.

A company known as BodyTrace Inc, has allowed another secret of yours to go online: your weight. This is apparently for those who are serious about shedding pounds. I suppose there can be no greater motivation to diet than being the star of your own version of The Biggest Loser.

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Paragolfer makes playing 18 a breeze for the disabled

Life is markedly challenging for the disabled. But what’s always impressed me is how they never let that challenge really define who they are or limit the life they live. And when technology helps in that regard, so many of life’s passions – namely golf – suddenly come into view. And with Paragolfer, it’s flat out the truth.

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As someone who used to bike a lot, I can tell you that it is dangerous to be out on the road. If you have ever been out there, then you know how out of place bikers feel when massive automobiles are passing on the left, and especially when they honk their horn.

The Lightlane is designed to create a bike lane where there isn’t any. It’s a pretty simple concept that uses two high visibility Diode Pumped Solid State green lasers to make a bike path on the street as the biker rides.

So now a driver can see the path projected, and, unless he or she looks too close, will treat it like at actual bike lane. Hopefully they will respond properly, and not honk their horn. Yes, I have a personal beef against drivers who honk their horn at bikers for no apparent reason. It scares the crap out of me!

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