With $58-million worth of investors, some private, some not-so-private (21st Century Fox) the Osterhout Design Group (ODG) moves forward with their revolutionary augmented reality (AR) glasses. You can already buy a pair by plunking down the better part of $3K for January shipment. That doesn’t include the tinted lens... Read more
AMSA Global Enterprises LLC, the folks behind the Tushi Pal Kickstarter campaign, is yet another tech company on a short list of wearable manufacturers who get it. They may suffer the sting of wearables fatigue, but not because their product isn’t awesome. Despite that risk, on the first day of their... Read more
In case you hadn’t noticed, butter is back in a big way if you accept everything you read online. Perhaps we should slow down before we go nuts. For years, nutritionists and doctors advised us to stay away from it because of all those saturated fats. Saturated fat was... Read more
Not from any brand that you would recognize, developers announced more than one wearable smartphone in the last couple of years. Each one appears to have fallen off the face of the Earth. What is keeping these beautiful ideas from our lonely wrists? It’s not likely I would make the... Read more
Any fitness fanatic who can look deep into the mirror at the eyes looking back will admit it; we’ve all done silly things in the gym. We’ve all held beliefs about what we’re doing; beliefs, that in time, we learn are not fact-based. It happens. The explanation for why is lengthy... Read more
The concept of super humans is nothing new. Philosophers have imagined humans with extraordinary powers since long before Marvel and DC started making graphic novels. Niche wrote about an Übermensch, an ideal human form we should aspire to attain. In case you’re wondering, it means “beyond man.” Perhaps, but... Read more
In case you hadn’t noticed, the days are shorter. That means the nights are longer. That means winter is coming. This would make a perfect segue into a blog about Game Of Thrones, but I’m not going there. Tempting, but back to wearables… Winter means snow . Snow means... Read more
Crash diets are nothing new. Neither is the opinion that diets are bad. And yet, that doesn’t stop people from taking to drastic measures every day, cutting their calories to near-starvation levels. Despite strong logical arguments against this practice, healthy-minded adults take chance with their nutrient intake every day. There are many... Read more
Spoiler alert, but if you suffer from asthma, by the end of this you will ask where can you get one? We’ll get there… Asthma is nothing short of awful. If you or someone you love suffers from any level of asthma, you know how frightening it can be.... Read more
How To Eat The Week Of Thanksgiving
Health March 13, 2025
There are days left before millions of Americans sit down to the feast of feasts, the Thanksgiving holiday. For chefs in the United States, there is no other holiday. This is the opportunity to showcase their perfect twists on traditional meal items, turkeys, cranberry, pumpkin pies and baked yams.... Read more
You can have your burger your way. You can custom design your Chuck Taylors as you prefer. As long as one has the means, he can craft the world around him as he pleases. Why then, can we not do the same with our wearable technology? We can. There... Read more
Housed in a package that looks like a pair of Beats by Dre, Halo sends electrical impulses to your brain, which stimulate it to speed your learning curve. The actual science is a little above our pay grade, but the core of what Halo does is something anyone can... Read more
So you’ve been working out like a metronome, more so than ever before in your life. At first, the results came with haste. People had nothing but compliments every time they saw you. Now the results and compliments have taken a pause. Maybe you’re thinking this is as good... Read more
It takes a mature person to admit he is wrong. It takes that same kind of maturity to admit you don’t know everything. When it comes to fitness and nutrition, we’re so inundated with messaging, it seems we’re all experts. If advertisers and media outlets spent as much time... Read more
Just launched on Indiegogo, Matrix Industries smartwatch could revolutionize how we power wearables forever, but first, they have to get them on a few wrists. All in good time, but time being the operating word, if Matrix Industries is successful, we will have enough of it to last forever.... Read more
We’re calling it now, 2017 will be the year of the heads-up display (HUD). Google Glass may not have revolutionized our lives the way they wanted, but that has not stopped a small revolution of consumer-friendly HUDs. At present, what we have are some clunky devices, but what these... Read more
The recently awarded My Virtual Mission app is surging in popularity, and with good reason. Your normal gym time, which can be boring, suddenly has a goal, stretched out across the world. You have to log the calories to complete your virtual missions, but you don’t have to log... Read more
It knows when you are sleeping, it knows when you’re awake, it even knows if you’ve been bad or good. If Santa Claus created a fitness wearable, it would be Actofit. The Actofit wearable is crowdfunding on Indiegogo right now. If you fear this is just another tracker to... Read more
The plane by PowerUp Toys isn’t 100% paper, but the experience of flying it is as close as you can get to a flying dream without sleeping. The best part about this sweet little piece of tech is that you can control its path of motion by tilting your... Read more
There’s a little-known trend making its way up the ranks of fitness. Actually, it’s been around since the 90’s but hasn’t stopped growing since those early outfits. Bounce or rebound fitness employs the use of large trampolines covering the floor and walls of a room, like some kind of... Read more