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Monday, October 26th, 2009 |
AlterG, the producer company of Anti-Gravity Treadmill, the revolutionary technology for athletic training and rehabilitation launched today the AlterG M300 product. M300 uses the same anti-gravity technology developed at NASA, which can be found in the P200 series too, but at a third of the price and packed in a new design. M300 brings the revolutionary technology closer to millions of people who are trying to rehabilitate more easily from surgery or injury or they just want to train smarter. The best thing about this product is that the efficiency/price is very good. This new product is basically an improved P200, and main differences are that M300 is optimized in form, function and price for therapy in clinics, trainings and fitness facilities.
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“Our AlterG P200 can bear the weight of pro football players, move at the speed of Olympic runners and accommodate the specific requirements of world-class teams and athletes” said Lars Barfood, the CEO of AlterG. “The new M300 is designed to take all the benefits of our existing anti-gravity treadmill and make it more affordable and manageable for physical therapy clinics, fitness and training facilities and individuals. AlterG removes the obstacles associated with training and physical rehabilitation – impact on the body and the pain and difficulty of recovery – and helps even more people achieve their training and rehab goals.
This recovery machine is great both for weekend warriors recovering from surgery and for hardcore athletes training through an injury. This product allows people to run and walk at a fraction of their body weight, it applies a precise and a comfortable force to lift the body, and people can move naturally and pain free. Reducing body weight lowers the impact on joints and muscles to provide a smooth recovery from injury or from surgery. AlterG M300 is also good for improving training and performance.
AlterG is easy to use, and it has simple differences from a traditional treadmill. First of all, the user steps onto the treadmill, raises the enclosure and zips into the chamber. The controls are pretty the same with traditional treadmills’ controls, beginning with the body weight measuring tool and with the pressure measuring tool. The body weight can be modified and actually reduced up to 60%, and the pressure on joints is much better and allows people to train better.
The speed and the incline also can be modified, and this also modifies the intensity of the exercise. In addition to the standard features, you will get support from the inflated air chamber. This way, the exercise will be more effective, and you body will recover faster.Originally, this product has been designed for athletes and professional sports teams, but nowadays anyone can benefit from this revolutionary product. So anyone looking to train or to smart rehab should get a M300. The company is working on improving the quality/price ratio, but taking into account that the technology used in this product is quite new, you should understand the price tag.
AlterG is pre-selling the M300 model, and the product will be shipped starting with November 2009. The product begins at $24,500 and here are some information about model’s varieties.
With the AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill you get all the gain, without the pain. AlterG optimizes rehab and training by minimizing the impact of running and walking on a person’s body.
For athletes – training is injury free and rehab is faster
For patients with lower body injury – faster recovery and smoother return to full functionality
For patients with neurological disorders – helps to maintain, and even regain, functionality and mobility
For weight loss – motivates users by simulating weight loss, protects joints from stress
AlterG has been reinventing rehabilitation and athletic training with its NASA developed, anti-gravity technology since 2005. Alberto Salazar, famed marathon runner and director of the Nike Oregon Project, was instrumental in working with AlterG to provide feedback on the prototype. His athletes began testing AlterG prototypes in 2006. Additional early testers include the Golden State Warriors and Oakland Raider franchises. In 2007, AlterG went to market with the first commercially available Anti-Gravity Treadmill.
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009 |
No matter if you are a gadget hunter, or you just want a special present for your friend’s birthday, I think that UsefulThings can help you. This website offers a range of gadgets, which can be purchased for personal use, but very good offered as gifts too.
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UsefulThings, as the name suggests also, is an online shop where you can find a lot of useful items, for house, office, travel, kitchen. The special thing is that all of these objects have something different from the common version of the same object. Even if the difference is about the color, the shape or it has an improvement, I think that these items are special in their own way. You can find objects which make the place you live in more friendly, or they add a crazy note to your office. You can also find funny useful kitchen gadgets too. These items are great gifts for gadget fans, who want to have strange and useful (not all the time useful) things.
The best thing about these items you can buy on
UsefulThings is that they can be offered to a wide range of people, beginning with your friends and family, and in last instance, you can find a cosy and elegant present even for your boss.
Personally, I would like to have in my house or in my office a Conceal Bookshelf, because it is such an elegant solution for storing books. I think you can place there all types of books, but if you have that shelf next to the sofa or the place where you spend some relaxation time, you can place there your favorite books, or those you are currently reading.
Another interesting item is the Glass Measuring Cup, which on one hand shows the quantities and their values, and on the other hand brings some interesting facts in front of our chef eyes. If have ever wondered how much 5,000 drops of water is, you can easily find out with this measuring cup. It’s cool and geeky!
Check out their products, and let us know which one you liked most!
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009 |
If you like photography, and especially if you like exposing images around, then you might want a special type of frame for your cool photographs. GrowFrame is the latest concept of photo frames, and it is an innovative idea which allows you to expose images grouping them somehow. The frames are made of wood and they can stick together due to a magnetic insertion, which is invisible, and actually, the whole sticking process is described by the producers as…magic.
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This concept allows you placing photos in new forms and new places in your house or office. If you don’t have, for example, a picture with all your friends together, you can put an image of a friend in one frame, and then “stick” them together so you can have a group photo.
There are three main types of grow frames: squares, standard and panoramic frames. Each square can hold a 2.5x 2.5 inch photograph, and I could say this is the most modular
GrowFrame.This original frame can be purchased only from the GrowShow frame store. You can use this square frame alone or combined with other squares or even with the other shapes to get a unique framing solution. These frames are held together by the powerful hidden magnets and they can be arranged in limitless vertical, horizontal or multi-dimensional configurations, in order to decorate any space.
Standard GrowFrame is designed for 4”x6” prints in a practical and innovative manner. Just like the other two frames, the frame can be used alone or in combination with other Standard frame, or even with the other shapes, for all panoramic and long format prints. GrowFrame Standard offers a flexible framing solution both for desk and wall applications. All frames are made of hardwood, which offers the frame rich finishes.
The panoramic frame, or on its “scene” name, Timelapse frame, is handcrafted out of solid wood. This frame can be used to display photographic sequences and it can display 6 photos (in the 12” model), but there are also 24” and 36” lengths constructions. These frames offer a real panoramic experience in one place. All Timelapse frames have magnetic endcaps which allow you to add other frames, if you want to continue the sequence began in one frame. The Timelapse frame can be purchased only in combination with the slideshow of images you can create on producer’s website. The general idea and I think that the basic concept is that you can display images which illustrate children’s growth process or evolution generally ( a flower blooming, a tree growing and of course, a child growing).
All three frames, when purchased, come with 2 additional component pieces:Â a solid easel stand, which allows frames to stand on a desk, a table, or any flat surface, and an angle segment, which allows multiple frames to be angled in various positions on the table, without the easel stand.
You can purchase any of these frames online, on producer’s website, and they offer a great opportunity to create your “grow” slideshows too. If you want to illustrate your children’s childhood, this is the best idea, because you can expose as many images as you wish, in an original manner.
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Monday, September 7th, 2009 |
The iHome iP 9 Dual Alarm Clock Radio is not just an alarm clock, but it’s also a cool gadget, and a great stereo speaker for your iPhone or iPod. Also it will charge your device. You can also control your listening experience with the included remote. The iHome works very efficiently and it’s very user friendly. The remote is very nice, feels solid not like a cheap plastic remote. Also the remote is easy to use with both iPhone and iPod.
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The iHome iP9 Alarm Clock Radio works well with the iPhone with a small exception. If you get an SMS message it does not play the sound that the iPhone 3G (and iPhone 3GS) makes if it is undocked. The phone will simply vibrate if it’s connected to the iHome. Also if you have an alarm set on your iPhone, it will not play through the speakers, if your phone rings, it will not ring through the speakers. Otherwise the iP9 is ready to entertain you, wake you, or ease your sleep.
One of the best features is that your iPod or iPhone will charge will you sleep or enjoy listening to AM / FM radio. You can control the radio, or the alarm clock using the large blacklit display with dimmer. Other features of these reliable device are, dual alarms to wake at separate times to different sources: iPhone / iPod, playlist, or AM / FM radio, Reson8 speaker chambers for astounding clarity, depth and power.
The universal dock that charges your iPhone or iPod really comes in handy is your unit is older than 18 months and you haven’t changed the battery. The infrared remote will control not just the volume, but also EQ, alarm functions and radio or will just help you navigate basic iPod and iPhone music functions. You also have a line in jack to connect other audio sources, like your MacBook or a CD player (I thought they’ve gone extinct).
So what do you get in the box for this cool gadget?You will get iHome iP9 dual alarm clock radio, made for iPod (works with iPhone) at a retail price of $ 99.95? Just five pieces: iHome iP9, Remote control, Universal voltage AC power adapter, AM antenna and the docking inserts to fit all iPod Touch, iPod nano or iPhone.
Later edit:
Get the coolest iPod alarm clock CD player so you can enjoy music and wake up on time as well.
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Friday, August 21st, 2009 |
Electrical gadgets are usually gadgets which help you to control the amount of electricity you spend and they also help you save some money and they help you be eco-friendly. Other electrical gadgets just make your life easier and they are innovations on older products, or simply new creations.
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If you usually buy a lot of batteries, maybe it’s time to get a smart battery charger and rechargeable batteries, and you will save a substantial amount of money. This excellent AA and AAA battery charger from La Crosse Tech. has a lot of interesting, advanced features, and be sure that you will use the rechargeable batteries at their best level of quality. This charger has 4 operations available: Charge, Discharge, Refresh and Test. In the Charge mode you can charge the batteries in the device, and you can also choose the speed of the charging process, slow or fast. When you use the Discharge mode, you reduce the memory effect of batteries, and with Refresh you can bring back to life old batteries. Test mode measures the power level of a battery. This charger comes with 4AA and 4AAA NiMH rechargeable batteries and also 4 C and 4 D battery adapters. All the AA batteries provided can be used in the adapters for appliances which work only with C or D batteries. When you purchase this charger, you also get a travel bag, which is very useful when you are not at home.
If you charged the batteries too many times, or you just have too many of them in a drawer and you want to clean up, you can make a selection using this ZTS MBT-1 battery tester, which is designed for measuring the capacity of charge in more than 30 well known types of batteries. It works with disposable and rechargeable batteries too, and it just uses a pulse load to check the capacity and it also measures the battery performance in simulated power demand. It doesn’t measure only the voltage and the resistance, and this makes the accuracy of the results to be increased and very exact. There are battery checkers which don’t load the battery enough during the test process and this leads to wrong results. Using it is very easy: you should place the battery (+) in the appropriate contact terminal, and then hold probe tip on the battery (-). The pulse test begins automatically, and on the LED display you get the remaining battery capacity.
I find this device very interesting, and I like because you can easily manage the time spent by your child in front of the TV or playing on the computer. It turns off the TV or the computer’s monitor after the time you set up and allocated to your child for that activity. For example, a kid gets a pin code and a specific time, which can be calculated daily or weekly. When he turns on the TV, he has to type the pin code in the device and then it starts counting…second after second, until the time initially programmed is finished. When this happens, the TV is switched off by this device, BOB, automatically. This is an interesting gadget because it learns children to value better time, and to organize the time spent in front of the TV or the computer better. They will learn that if they learn junk TV shows they won’t have time for the really important shows, and they will value their free time more wisely.
This interesting gadget, Kill A Watt is a monitor which shows you how many watts is your electrical system using and how much will this cost you. It can help you to identify the efficient appliances and it will help you eliminate the inefficient ones, it will make decisions to leave something on standby or turn it off completely, and it basically helps you save a lot of money. Kill A Watt is an electricity monitor which measures the consumption range and it calculates the operating costs for all the normal appliances which can be plugged into a normal outlet. It can also calculate the costs per day, hour, week, month, and you will have a statistic database without messy mathematic calculus. The most important thing is to input the electric rate, and Kill A Watt will do the job, You should connect this to all the appliance in the house. It can be plugged into a wall outlet, and after you input the electric rate it is ready for functioning and saving your money. The electric rate can be read on the bill, and if you don’t have one, you can call at customer service number and they will help you.
I fell in love with the following gadget since I saw it first, and I think it’s a pretty cool innovation. Using this book reading light when you are reading means that you will no longer disturb anyone anymore, no matter if you are in a train, at home in bed, or in the bus. Instead of shining a beam from a distance it illuminates a thin transparent piece of plastic which you can place on the page you read. I think it is great because it puts the light on the page you are reading, and only there, without disturbing anyone, and it uses a simple functioning concept: a thin, flat page sized plastic is illuminated by 2 LEDs in the handle. This device is suitable for hardcover and paperback books and it works on 4 AAA batteries, which is more than cheap, and they provide 40 hours of reading.
There are a lot of gadgets which can help you be more eco-friendly or they can just make your life easier and more comfortable. There is a gadget for almost every need we have, and I think adapting to the new generation of products is the most important skill of a person. Nowadays gadget market brings a lot of new products almost daily in front of our eyes!
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