running
Julbo, French maker of sunglasses, partnered with ActiveLook, a manufacturer of a wearable heads-up display. This allows the wearer to see geospatial and physiological data displayed in their field of view, without loss of an area of sight. TL;DR? Good hardware, usefulness heavily restricted by the software. Hopefully the
suunto
Suunto pulled through (perhaps…) a ‘replatforming’, and are merrily selling their Spartan line of watches. This started with the Ultra…
sports-tech
On 2016–10–01, Oakley released the Radar Pace, for $449. Very little technical information was available pre-sale, and it was a delight to find it supports both Bluetooth and ANT+ sensors. A novel feature of it that was also undocumented is that the software (‘coach’) will calculate running power,
suunto
Continued from here. A while back, Suunto announced a new iteration of their GPS/GLONASS line, called the Vertical. Like a good technologist, I pre-ordered, and embraced its smaller feature set (compared with the Peak) with delight. I endured Suunto’s decision that people who ‘chase the Vertical’ don’t
wearables
Update: this is continued here. Last Wednesday, I received my Suunto Ambit3 Vertical. Having a new hardware design — a recycled Traverse — it presents itself more as an Ambit 3.5 than one of the existing range. Initial Observations The first, most apparent difference is the removal of the GPS antenna
wearables
Recently, I compared the output of two optical heart rate monitors: the Mio Link, and the Jabra Pulse, finding that they are comparable in their accuracy. Since then, I’ve moved on from an interest in direct heart rate (beats per minute), and developed an interest in heart rate variability
wearables
Starting on Kickstarter, Mio were the first company that I know of to use an optical HRM in a sports stracker. Bright green LEDs shine through the skin, enabling a camera to see the wearer’s pulse. This is then exported either over BT LE or ANT+ to one’s
sports-tech
I ran yesterday wearing two HRMs, both optical. On my right wrist, I wore a Mio Link, and in my ears, a Jabra Pulse. The data from the Link was recorded to my Suunto Ambit3 Peak, and the Pulse was recorded to their app on my iPhone. The run was