5 Gadgets That Would Make Your Athlete Life Easier
Most of the time, we want to enjoy our calories burning session to the fullest but unfortunately we just can't. Why? Because we never know if we're doing it right or if we're actually geting healthier.
If you love gadgets and you are planning to go on a healthy diet course, here are the five tech you wouldn't want to miss out.
1. Withings Pulse
Withings Pulse has a slick and cool design. It has a built-in pulse sensor, and a useful touch-sensitive monochrome OLED screen to display your vitals that will definitely suit whatever fitness level or style.
What Withings Pulse can do?
- Measures how much you walk and how fast
- Count how many calories you burn
- Analyse your sleep patterns
- Check and monitor your heart rate
- Check your blood oxygen level
- Link to your smartphone
- Swipe to record your daily session
Price: around 4,990 THB or 79.95 Euro
2. Smart Yoga Map
Yoga is always interesting and it is a great way to lose weight. But wait a second, practicing yoga wihtout an instructor can be very very hard (especially for beginners) to do it correctly.
Smart yoga mat is an intelligent mat that will guide your self-yoga practice to the next level and tell you when you are doing it wrong.
What Smart Yoga Mat can do?
- Detect your wrong posture
- Correct your pose on real-time
- Link to your smart phone via App
- Be your personal yoga instructor 24/7
- Track, store and monitor your progress
Price: Pre-order now $297 or around 10,700 THB
Buy now: Smartmat.com
For more information: Smartmat.com
3. HidrateMe Smart Water Bottle
During our exercise session or even during the day, many of us don't take care of ourselves that much. We often times forget when and how much we should drink.
HidrateMe water bottle will track your water intake and make sure that you're hydrated all day long. The smart bottle sends information to the Hidrate app on your smart phone and will spark and glow when it is the time for you to drink more water.
What HidrateMe can do?
- Tracks your water intake
- Sparks and glows when it is the time to consume water
- Link to your smartphone via App
- A-year-last and replaceable battery
- Simple, sleek and cool design for both office and gym occasion
Come in 6 different colors
Price: Pre-oder at $59.95 or around 2,150 THB
Buy now: Hidratespark.com
For more information: Kickstarter.com
4. HoodieBuddie Hooded Jacket
Of course we understand that you want to listen to your fav music while you're running, biking or walking. But the problem is everytime you plug-in your device, you don't know where to keep it while your body is in motion.
Another issue is that, your earphones become wet and sometimes it turns yellow (if earphones is white) because of your salty sweat, errr yes, we know, it's a little bit unhygienic and eww.
HoodieBuddie is the new kind of accessories. It is a hooded sweat jacket that comes with a standard headphone jack in the front pocket. Therefore, it enables you to carry everywhere your external devices and make sure that your headphones will never get dirty.
What HoodieBuddie can do?
- The entire Hoodie is machine washable
- Built-in standard headphone jack
- Comes with different designs and colors; for men, women and kids
- Selected and supersoft materials
- Light and comfortable to wear
- Waterproof earphones with quality sound
- Frequency range between 20Hz - 20 kHz
Price: varies with designs and types
For more information: HoodieBuddie.co.th or HoodieBuddie International
5. TrackerPad - Sticky GPS Tracker
We keep losing things, no matter if it's a wallet or a bike. But today, you can track locations of your own personal belongings with just a small tiny chip called TrackerPad.
According to Gizmag, the TrackerPad has a built-in prepaid SIM that communicates with the TrackerPad server and the server, in turn, relays info to an accompanying TrackerPad app on the user's smart phone.
You can stick the TrackerPad on any of your belongings. It could be your bicycle, your skateboard or even your pets, so every time you go out in the park for exercise, you don't have to worry about them getting lost.
What TrackerPad can do?
- Track your personal belonging locations
- Small in size and very comfortable to use
- Link to your smart phone via App
- Support multiple TrackerPad in one App
- Size:10 x 10 x 3.8 mm
Price: $46, 30 Euro or around 1,650 THB
Buy now: Kickstarter.com
For more information: Kickstarter.com