The Swiss Army Knife of Jackets!

Seymourpowell has designed a new smart jacket for extreme environments called Life Tech, for outdoor sportswear brand Kolon Sport.

The Challenge
Seymourpowell faced the challenge of designing a jacket for the most extreme environments with functional elements that would be able to save lives in the harshest of conditions.

The Response
The jacket's design and features are directly influenced by extensive research and interviews with extreme survival experts. Seymourpowell worked closely with mountaineers and ski guides, a Professor of human thermodynamics, an ex-UK Special Forces operative and even a Polar Explorer. This research gave invaluable insights that have been used to create genuinely innovative and lifesaving features.

In a sign that the wearable technology revolution is being driven by the fashion industry, the Kolon Sport Life Tech jacket applies relevant wearable technologies designed to save lives in the harshest of conditions and demonstrates the effectiveness of wearable technology in clothing when there is a genuine need for it.

The Response
The various technological details of the design include: a tri-layered system made up of an outer waterproof and windproof, breathable Gore PRO outer shell jacket; a thermal inner layer with a Heatex System (the world's first conductive polymer heating system); and a stretch fabric base layer with electronic device and battery stowage with proximity to core body heat.

Other key technical design features include a wearable wind turbine generator; oversized zip pulls for use with gloves; easy access shoulder and back straps for manhandling a companion in distress; and a wearable first aid and survival kit.

The wind turbine mounted onto the sleeve of the jacket can be angled to generate power throughout the day whilst the wearer is on the move. It can also be removed and attached to the exterior of a tent to continue generating power overnight. The turbine can charge auxiliary devices such as GPS & smartphones for essential navigation and communication. The Heatex System provides up to seven hours of potentially life saving heat up to a temperature of 40-50°C around vital organs. 

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Healbe GoBe: The Only Way to Automatically Measure Calorie Intake

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The Original 100% Automatic Body Manager™

GoBe is the only way to automatically measure calorie intake—through your skin, by reading the glucose in your cells. Simply wear it to see calories consumed and burned, activity, hydration, sleep, stress levels, and more, delivered effortlessly to your smartphone.

Everything else is just a manual calorie tracker. Only GoBe precisely calculates calorie intake, burn, and metabolic rate during any activity, with no logging, tracking, or guesswork.

How is Healbe GoBe™ different?

GoBe doesn't require you to keep a food diary, scan bar codes, or take photos of your meals. It automatically calculates calories consumed by measuring the amount of glucose in your cells, through your skin. Only GoBe uses Healbe FLOW™ Technology to combine a unique algorithm with measurements from the body manager's pressure, accelerometer, and impedance sensors to show you calories consumed; metabolic rate and calories burned during any activity; hydration; sleep; and stress.

How does Healbe GoBe™ work?

Alert Shirt, Feel The Game!

I can't wait for this to come to America. How many drunk football fans are going to want the Alert Shirt.

Ever wanted to know what it feels like to be tackled in a game of football, but aren’t prepared to get off your couch to actually find out? You’ll love the Alert Shirt, a fun piece of wearable technology designed to make you experience every tackle, collision, and score from the comfort (and safety) of your living room.

Now you have to subscribe to FoxTel, like DirecTV it is a package based subscription, but it is a start, there is no way that DirecTV will pass this up.

And Another Wearable Fitness Tracker - Jaybird REIGN

Not much known here, it tracks by your life activity, sleep, and go-zone. It would be great if it vibrated you awake, or you could customize what you wanted it to do. Here is a perfect opportunity to change it up, not follow the dozen or more wearable's that are all doing the same thing, claiming they are better. Don't follow, make an app that has all the functions baked in allowing the user to decide what they want tracked and alerted.
Boy how I would love to work for one of these companies!
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Another Device, Skulpt Is At Least Useful!

the smart way to measure

Aim™ is an innovative device for measuring body composition and analyzing individual muscles. Simply place the device on the muscle you want to measure, and instantly get the fat percentage and overall muscle quality for that body part - your MQ number.

Check it out $149, perfect price.

Wearable Tech, Keeps Us Safe! PFO Technologies

Being safe is a choice, no one is monitoring you unless you buy and activate this watch. For the use of military, journalist, people who chose to put themselves in harms way to make a difference, this bracelet can help them stay safe, think of it as RoadID on steroids.

In the spring of 2013, PFO Technologies developed a GPS bracelet for Civil Rights Defenders’ Natalia Project – the first assault alarm system for human rights defenders at risk. 

The project enables defenders wearing the bracelet to send out a distress signal to Civil Rights Defenders as well as onto global social media platforms, allowing people everywhere to immediately get involved and put pressure on the regime.

Developer/Manufacturer

PFO Technologies is the developer and manufacturer behind the project that combines PFO Technologies’s GPS bracelet / tracking device as well as an integrated server infrastructure with the expertise of Civil Rights Defenders, a global organization with the mission of defending people’s civil and political rights.

Sochi Mountain for the Ski Simulator!

The Sochi Mountain for the Ski Simulator

This year became a turning point in professional winter sports with SkyTechSport’s most recent development – the downhill skiing simulator and GPS replica of Sochi mountain resort at Olympic Games in 2014. The company came out with a unique GPS-scouting technology which allows to recreate real mountains. Olympic virtual courses were acknowledged by national ski teams as a full-fledged and truly invaluable training tool.

Got to love the Olympics!

Snowmule, Pull Your Kids Around The Mountain!

We have all tried something like this, using our poles, our parents tried many different things as well, just not sure why this never occurred to anyone, until now.

Winter sports family holidays are incredibly popular for good reason – what other activity can the entire family, of all ages, participate in together? Add the fantastic mountain air and there is very little else anyone could wish for…. ...except an extra pair of hands for pulling the children along! Snowmule is a ski innovation for pulling children on those flat areas of snow while keeping your hands free.
Snowmule

ShoreTrax, Portable Bike Course!

The Shoretrax system has all the excitement of a traditional fixed mountain bike trail but is fully portable and adapts to suit riders of any age or skill level. The track height can be adjusted from flat to upright and any number of twists and turns can be created to suit the rider’s level of technical ability. Shoretrax can also be used inside or outside and on any type of floor surface.

Although the Shoretrax system takes its inspiration from traditional mountain bike trails, you can ride the track on any type of bicycle including BMX bikes. This fully portable and interchangeable track system delivers the thrill and excitement of riding a mountain bike trail in the mountains to your event, school, sports club, activity park or even your garden!

Our tracks are easy to assemble and setup using our unique tool free system and are feature packed and fully upgradeable because of Shoretrax’s patent pending modular design.

ShoreTrax it's not Cheap! $4000 US

EASYBREATH Snorkel

This EASYBREATH snorkel can be taken many different ways, purist will hate it, kids will love it! For surface viewing it looks great and easy of use is wonderful, I wonder what happens when I go down 70 feet. Would love to get one into my hand to try. Brilliant.

The main obstacle to snorkelling is the difficulty in breathing underwater with a snorkel. Indeed, breathing through your mouth is unnatural, and the snorkel mouthpiece is sometimes considered too intrusive, uncomfortable and unhygienic. That's why Tribord invented the Easybreath mask, the first full-face snorkelling mask, for breathing underwater as easily and naturally as you would on land with your nose and mouth. Thanks to its large size, this innovative mask also offers users an unobstructed 180° field of vision, and is prevented from fogging up by a double air-flow system that is identical to the system used in domestic extraction fans.

Oh and the cost is a no brainier, around $60

Titin Training, Bringing It To The Next Level!

Looking for an edge in your training, try packing on the pounds.

MEET TITIN FORCE™, THE WORLD’S ONLY WEIGHTED COMPRESSION SHIRT SYSTEM. This heavy-duty, three part, weighted shirt system features a zippered inner shirt with 14 strategically placed pockets that place 8 pounds of fit-right, hydro-gel inserts across your upper body and upper arms. A double-stitched, moisture-wicking compression shirt locks down the weight while promoting increased blood circulation. Wear it hot. Wear it cold. Wear this 8-pound shirt system for a HyperGravity training program that helps your body, build explosive speed, strength and teeth-gritting endurance. YOU’LL HATE IT. YOU’LL LOVE IT.

Instabeat, Heart Rate Monitor Mounted On Swim Goggles!

Instabeat is the first waterproof heads-up monitor that tracks, stores, and displays instant feedback of your heart rate during your swim to optimize your training and allow you to achieve your peak performance.

Hind Hobeika is the founder of Instabeat, an award-winning startup that creates high-tech tools that track and improve athletes’ performance and well-being. Hind is a WEF Global Shaper and founder of the Quantified Self, Beirut chapter. Hind, a woman engineer and inventor from an Arab nation, demonstrated an early interest in the power of Intellectual Property and converted this into a sustainable business advantage. More

JayBird, Activity Tracker!

THE BAND THAT SHAPES TO YOUR WRIST
Reign shapes to your wrist using soft, seamless premium materials, and offers eight interchangeable size options. You'll love how it feels.
MORE DETAILS iPhone, Android and web Wireless & waterproof More great features yet to be announced Patents pending
YOUR LIFE BY ACTIVITY Your life displayed by activity & sport. It's a powerful motivator to see when and HOW you get more active over time.
TONIGHT'S SLEEP Know how much sleep you need tonight To be rested, ready to go, and be at your best tomorrow.
GO-ZONE Reign reads your body & knows when it wants to be active. It's great ammunition when you need a spark.

Not that we need another tracker, but this one seems a little better, sleeker and form fitting. Not sure who is going to win out, and if CES show this year has any indication, everyone is trying. Apple has still to weigh in not sure how they will do in terms of real athletes, but with the consumer they should be a hit. Stay Tuned.

Dumbags, No Noise. No Damage. No Injuries. No Hassle!

I might be missing something, this is a great idea, but not sure why the high cost. They are bags!
This is a brilliant idea, I am sure someone that wants to make a ton of money by selling a truckload will, just at a cost that makes sense.

Practical.Versatile.Portable.Adaptable.Flexible.Economical.

Dumbags- Smart Weights: are purpose-built sandbags, designed to eliminate the major problems associated with metal kettlebells and dumbbells, such as personal injury, property damage, noise, portability issues, storage, cost, and much more. Their brilliant design and versatility has meant that they are suitable for anyone purchasing weights – whether on their own or as an addition to existing weights.

Created by Australian businessman and fitness professional, Michael Coates, together with his 2 sons (both Personal Trainers) they have just completed test marketing via a global crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, and are very excited by the results, with orders from countries all over the world.

Great product and if you want to spend the money its a great alternative.

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SMITTYBILT GEAR SEAT COVERS

Only Smittybilt could come up with a product as innovative as the new G.E.A.R. Seat Covers. Combining plush comfort with an efficient design, Smittybilt takes the idea of premium seat covers to a whole new level.

Each G.E.A.R. seat cover comes fully-equipped with pockets and storage compartments to help you store personal items and save space, while also providing a comfortable and durable seat cover solution. Available in a range of sizes and configurations, you can use them to cover the front seats of your jeep, the rear bench seat, or just about any truck seat. Their modular design lets you add and remove pouches to create your ideal storage layout, customizing them to accommodate whatever gear you choose to bring with you. Made from 600 denier polyester with a PVC liner, they are highly durable and available in coyote tan, OD green, and black.

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