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Twilight Supernova for golfers who love playing till late at night
Not everyone has the vision of a cat at night – but that doesn’t mean you cannot enjoy your game of golf even though you’re whacking away in poor light conditions. This unique £29.99 Twilight Supernova is a professional-quality golf ball which will feature built-in impact-activated LEDs. Once you tee off (or having some bunker issues, trying to chip your way through), it will flash rapidly to the tune of 7.2 times per second – and remain that way for up to 8 minutes. That ought to provide ample time for you to see the ball long enough and walk to it, don’t you think so?
Not only that, there is a back-up plan with the Twilight Supernova. The moment the LEDs stop flashing, Supernova’s patented After-Glow technology kicks in to make sure the ball will be able to glow brightly for several hours more. Available in blue, green and white colors, they look positively radioactive after you’ve given it a good whack. The built-in battery is able to last for around 40 hours or 300 hits whichever comes first, and I think it might even make for an alternative toy for cats to chase around with at night.
FINIS Tempo Trainer Pro
We have reported on the FINIS Tempo Trainer Pro before, and I got a chance to try it out. I wish I could try it out in the pool, but I don’t have one. Also, it is kind of cold out.
As we mentioned before, the FINIS Tempo Trainer Pro is for the serious swimmers, like those who are competing. I had no idea that swimmers need to have a “perfect pace” to sync their strokes in order to sink the competition.
The Tempo Trainer Pro is a waterproof timer made to beep like a metronome to help the swimmer find that perfect pace. It is made to be clipped to a swimmer’s goggles, and, as you can see here, it fits under a snug bathing cap. Yeah, this isn’t going to fall out anytime soon, but if it does, it will float right to the surface.
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PGA Tour Electronic Golf Scorecard
Even though you might be best buddies for many decades already, human relationships can be pretty fragile at times – and a game of golf might end up in fistcuffs when some cheating has been discovered, or in accounting circles, ‘creative adjustments’ in the scorecard. What better way to prevent a slip of the pencil than with modern technology? I guess this is where the £14.99 PGA Tour Electronic Golf Scorecard would definitely come in handy.
No longer do you need to remember to sharpen those pencils and remember to bring enough paper the next time you’re going to spend some time on the greens, all you need is the PGA Tour Electronic Golf Scorecard and you’re good to go. Just make sure there is enough juice remaining to keep it powered, where said device is able to score up to 4 players simultaneously. It clips on easily to your golf bag, and with a LCD display that makes it easy to tell the score at a glance, a sliding cover ensures it remains safe from any splashes, knocks and flying divots. Heck, it is smart enough to let you know the time and temperature as well.
PGA Tour Indoor & Outdoor Putting Mat
Golf widows, the next time your husband feels the itch to head for the green after forgetting his promise of bringing you out that day for some time together, it is time you put your high heels down. Make sure he has at least £28.99 left on his credit card so that he is able to “buy” this for himself – with you making the purchase, of course. We’re talking about the PGA Tour Indoor & Outdoor Putting Mat to make sure he gets his putting fix in the comfort of his home – only after he brings you out as promised for your couple’s day. Let him know he can get all the exercise from carrying your shopping bags and scouring through all 5 levels of the mall with you to look for that perfect pair of shoes.
The PGA Tour Indoor & Outdoor Putting Mat comes with nearly 2 meters of green, letting anyone who uses it enjoy plenty of room in order to practice your long and short shorts. The ramp that leads to the hole will be ideal for developing your stroke firmness, and throw in a couple of hazards if you feel like you’re up for a challenge. There is a miniature target flag and simulated grass to make it as real an experience as possible, including a bunker and water hazard.
String Thing helps you get it right
You know what they say – a good workman never blames his tools, but sometimes, you just think that if it weren’t for your tools and not the lack of skill, you would be able to do so much better in a particular sport or activity. If you’re an avid fan (and player) of racquet sports such as tennis, then surely you would need to know a little bit of basic physics. For example, the nylon strings on your tennis racquet were specially designed to shift, stretch and spring back as it comes into contact with the ball to deliver power to your shots. The strings won’t stay evenly spaced out and in place all the time though, so eventually they will get misaligned.
Enter the £19.99 String Thing which is rather curiously named, allowing you to reset strings to their proper position without having to do it the old fashioned way by hand, and the latter most probably would be a disaster since they probably would not end up being perfectly straight anyways. Made from polycarbonate, this virtually indestructible String Thing is able to give Wolverine’s adamantium skeleton a run for its money in terms of toughness.
The entire process of running the String Thing through your racquet takes mere seconds, so you can get back to your playing best as soon as possible.
Z3 GPS goggles for those who do not want to get lost
Going skiiing can be quite the fun activity – after all, you have nothing but a huge expanse of snow to which you can ply your trade, slaloming through the slopes with wanton abandon (once your skill level is right up there, of course, beginners as well as those who are not experienced enough need to maintain a degree of caution). Sometimes of course, you still need to get your bearings correct wherever you ski, as exploring too far away from the base might see you getting lost (either that or, if you have a really bad sense of direction).
Good thing there is this thing called GPS – and Zeal Optics from Colorado has introduced their latest model of goggles that sports a built-in global positioning system, calling it the Z3 GPS Goggles. These goggles will be constructed based on the technology introduced in the company’s Transcend GPS Goggles collection, where among the new features will include enhanced style and comfort, ease-of-use and data-capture capabilities.
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iHome NB639 Fitness evolved headphones
For some reason, I seem to be encountering a theme when I am reporting headphones, as I seem to be reviewing ones designed for an active crowd. Yesterday, it was the Jabra SPORT, today it is the iHome NB (New Balance) 639.
As you can see in the picture, the headphones have something else attached to them besides the iPod nano. The unit that you see there is able to detect your heart rate in your thumb at a touch of a button. It will then speak that information in your ear through the headphones, and save it.
The unit also has a button to start a workout, and this clip-on unit functions as a pedometer and data recorder. The user can then attach the unit to the USB dongle to charge it and the information off the unit can be graphed.
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FINIS announces Tempo Trainer Pro availability
Metronomes aren’t just for folks who play the piano, you know. FINIS, the worldwide leader in technical swimming development and provider of select training equipment for the U.S. Olympic Swim Team, has just announced that they have made available their Tempo Trainer Pro – which essentially is an audible metronome pacing device. This is not revolutionary, but it is new and improved where personal pace coach devices are concerned.
The Tempo Trainer Pro is meant to assist a swimmer develop consistency by avoiding lulls through the transmission of an audible tempo beep while swimming. This is no doubt a tiny, waterproof device which can be worn under a swimmer’s cap, while sporting a sync button. It will be powered by a replaceable battery, sporting three modes which will monitor your strokes-per-minute and floating capability.
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