Sports
Backyard pool that goes on forever
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Anything less than a 25m pool can make swimming a frustrating, inefficient means of exercise, and unless you have the spare acreage, cutting a few laps of the backyard pool is usually out of the question... Read More
Four-Wheeled Rowing on Land
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For Dr. Marcio Ferez, the hand-made wooden trolley his father built in the backyard more than 50 years ago has become the basis for a new kind of land-based exercise machine - the CHAMPIOT Ultra. Read More
gekkomat enables you to climb like a gecko
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Forget ladders, ropes, grappling hooks and cherry-pickers, if you need to go vertical just do as a Gekko does. Inspired by the climbing prowess of its natural namesake, the "gekkomat" - meaning "automatic lizard-climber" - is an autonomous machine... Read More
Tiger Woods makes the switch to Nike Forged Irons
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After an average year by his standards - he won two of four Majors and five events total in 2002 - Tiger Woods has made the change to Nike Blade Forged Irons. Golf is a sport of subtleties and changing clubs isn't as easy as changing shoes... Read More
Bushnell Yardage Pro Range Finder
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June 3, 2004 The Bushnell Yardage Pro Rangefinder provides a solution to the age-old golfing problem of being 'a club too short' or a 'club too long' and completely missing the target despite hitting the ball straight. Used like a set of binoculars with a targeting site in the view-finder for pinpointing the object, Yardage Pro Rangefinders have many applications from including mapping, surveying, hunting, boating and golf. Read More
Shark Shield makes it safe to go back in the water
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Man's love affair with the surf has always been tempered with the fear of the ultimate blue water predator, the shark. Until now that is... a new Australian invention makes it safe to go into the surf or sit "out the back" with your legs dangling in far greater safety. Adelaide-based SeaChange Technology has released the Shark Shield, a book-sized device that straps on to the thigh and repels sharks by emitting an electrical field via trailing antenna. A Sharks detects this electrical field through sensory receptors on its snout, initially causing mild irritation and as it swims closer, muscular spasms that drive the shark from the area. The Shark Shield is available in a general-purpose unit for surfing activities or as a kit designed specifically for divers which has the two electrodes at different points - one on the ankle and another on the scuba cylinder - creating a protective field all around the body. Read More
Intermittent Hypoxic Treatment
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Hypoxic stimulation has been a favourite training modality for athletes since the 1968 Mexico Olympics when it became clear how much physiological advantage could be had by training at high altitude. This is the principle behind the Australian-invented GO2Altitude system, which uses the latest Intermittent Hypoxic Treatment (IHT) technology and requires only about an hour a day of breathing while reading or watching TV. Read More
