Ball Returning Soccer Trainer

So, I am quite sure that many of us who follow the world of football (soccer for those living in the US) in the current summer transfer window would be twiddling their fingers anxiously, wondering whether Gareth Bale would actually make the jump to Real Madrid for what would possibly be a new world record transfer fee of 100 million Euros.

Well, as you dream about your kid making it big on the world soccer stage so that you can be his manager and start living a jet-setting lifestyle, perhaps providing him with the right tools to practice consistently would be a good idea. Enter the $99.95 Ball Returning Soccer Trainer, which is a two-in-one soccer net that allows a player spend more time perfecting his or her game, instead of using the bulk of that time to retrieve balls.
The Ball Returning Soccer Trainer comes with a sturdy steel frame that has been shaped like an X, where one side of it has been draped with a curved net. Whenever you kick a ball into this area, it will naturally follow an upward arc, before it rebounds with spin and height. This would mean one has to trap and control the ball before taking the next kick, inadvertently developing the fancy skills that are required of a professional. On the reverse side of the trainer, you will find that it comes covered with a taut, vertical net which is capable of absorbing most of the ball’s impact before returning it, so that you have an ideal surface to practice your shots on goal as well as one-touch heading and passing drills.

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Polar Loop activity tracker turns on the style

Polar has just announced their latest activity tracker that comes in a stylish form factor, where it is known as the Polar Loop. I guess you can call the Polar Loop to be a sort of “smart bracelet”, where it is capable of keeping track of your daily activity and exercise levels, all the while monitoring sleep patterns, so that you will be able to receive instant motivational feedback, all the while receiving the relevant alerts so that you can achieve your personalized daily activity goals. The Polar Loop was built with over 35 years of experience as the worldwide leader in heart rate and fitness assessment technology, delivering new levels of precision and unmatched expertise to the activity tracker market.

When the Polar Loop works in tandem with Polar Flow, a free online tracking service and app for the iPhone which is capable of synchronizing automatically using Bluetooth Smart, the Polar Loop will then deliver smart guidance on just how is able to improve health and wellbeing through making tiny changes in one’s daily activity. The Polar Loop is meant to be worn round the clock, being waterproof to ensure that it can keep up with your demanding lifestyle, while capturing all movement and exercise with the ability to tell the difference between different levels of activity.
Herb Baer, Polar USA president, said, “Polar is a trusted training partner for everyone from elite athletes to those looking to lose weight. Polar Loop brings our expertise and insights beyond time spent exercising, providing a complete and accurate picture of all daily activity and underlining the importance of every movement made throughout the day—from running, cycling and weight training to cooking, taking the stairs and walking the dog.”
Pressing a button would see the Polar Loop display show off a bunch of information concerning your user activity goal as well as how much more you need to do to achieve it, in addition to other nuggets like number of calories burned, steps taken and the time of day. The Polar Loop will retail for $109.95 a pop later this October in black, while there is a pink version that will feature white LEDs that is tipped to arrive next year.

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Rideye is a black box for bicyclists

There are ways to get from point A to B other than driving a car. There’s the bus, walking, or bicycling at your disposal. They all are a bit more cumbersome in some way, like being too crowded on the bus, or bad weather for a walk. The most dangerous method of the aforementioned list though, is riding your bike. While this will help you get a workout and save you some money, there are a lot of people who don’t like sharing the road.

Mistreating cyclists seems to be an epidemic. People will drive them off the road for no reason, open their doors when bicyclists are trying to ride past, and more. For some, a bike is the only option of transportation, so they just have to be careful. If they’re knocked unconscious though, there’s not a lot they can do. One of these situations happened to the friend of Cedric Bosch, and in response, he created the Rideye.
This is literally a black box that you fit onto your bike. One press of a button and it will start recording in a loop. Whenever it detects a crash, it will save the footage from your ride. The same goes for pressing the button again. This little box can hold 2.5 hours of footage, and shoots in HD. It will connect to your computer through mini-USB, can hold a charge for 24 hours, and will cost you around $119. This is a crowdfunding project, but there needs to start being more action taken against drivers who somehow think toppling a biker doesn’t have consequences, and this seems like a good start.

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