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Nike concept sunglasses give you the benefit of hindsight
Here’s some nifty concept sunglasses from Nike which curve your field of vision, so you can actually (sort-of) see behind you! Normal field of view is 180°, but this extends that 25° on each side, giving you an effective 230° vision range. Useful for seeing that taxi that’s about to knock you over. Nike say:
“To get technical, high power, diverging Fresnel zones aligned vertically distort into view an extra 25º of view on either side. In doing this, vision is radically distorted in the periphery, but as the eye detects only motion in that area, little clarity is lost in the process.”
Still, it remains just a concept. Sorry, but you won’t be getting your hands on these just yet.
Nike (via CrunchGear)
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Apple announces new iPod family: thinner, more storage, more colours, more "funner"
Steve Jobs has just announced an overhaul of the iPod range, with new iPod nanos, iPod classics, and iPod touches.
Here’s a quick overview of the new designs.
iPod nano
Available in nine colours (including a (PRODUCT) RED charity version), and either 8GB or 16GB storage capacity, the new design features curved aluminium and glass, and a built in accelerometer which allows you to flip viewing orientation, and even shake the device to shuffle music tracks.
It measures 3.6 x 1.5 x 0.24 inches, has a two-inch diagonal colour LCD with LED backlight (320 x 240 resolution), and offers up to 24 hours of music playback or four hours of video playback on a single charge.
8GB £109 16GB £149…
Get a brainwave using the FeelFree headset
Binaural Beats are weird. Discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, a German physicist and meteorologist, they’re auditory processing artifacts created when you play sounds of slightly different frequencies to each ear. A beating tone is percieved, as if the tones mixed outside the brain. The weird bit, however, is that they appear to entrain brainwaves, producing relaxation and health benfits. Enter the FeelFree headset…
UPDATED: Nike+iPhone = a pretty way of visualising just how unfit you are
Some screenshots have been leaked of an updated version of the Nike+ iPod, the shoe/music player hybrid for athletics training and the like, redesigned for the iPhone.
Transformer shoe extravaganza: robots in disguise – and on your feet
Rather like a Kinder Egg but a shoe, a robot and a surprise (no chocolate), are these most wonderfully ridiculous Transformer trainers. Quite when the design guy thought “You know what, I wish I could turn my shoes into robots,” is utterly beyond me but my nostalgia hormones refuse to let me say that having a life form from Cybertron protecting your feet is a bad idea…
Nike McFly Hyperdunks: Back to the Future II footgear? Not quite.
Sorry to disappoint all your back to the future fans, but the Nike Hyperdunks are more “inspired” than “copied” from the pair Marty wore in Back to the Future.
Nike and Apple offer tunes to get you running with 30-minute jogging workout
Fancy getting fit in the new year? Well, you’ve probably left it a bit late to be honest – although a trip to the shop for the iPod/Nike kit and a download of this 30-minute jogging workout could get you moving in a matter of hours.
Stay on the bleeding edge of fashion with Nike and KDDi Communications' blood-red shoes
A product is never just a single product these days, with convergence being more popular than this year than touch-screens, believe it or not. Just look at how many applications and features the most popular touch-screen product of all time is…
Nike is making leaps and bounds in the tech-convergence field, with their Nike + iPod shoes, and now their collaboration with Japan’s…
The Nike Amp+ Sport Remote is some sort of watch
Great, more watches where you need a degree in mathematics to understand their pretentious binary numbered time display systems.
The Nike Amp is more than just a ludicrously styled watch, mind – it also has Nike+ functionality, so, if you’re a bit on the Nathan Barley side, you can plug your iPod Nano into your trainers…
NikePlus runners clock up 22 million miles
The frankly ridiculous idea of letting your iPod talk to your trainers and then posting all the data online seems to have taken off, with users of the NikePlus service registering a total of 22 million miles total running distance.
That’s the equivalent of running from London to Bristol…
