Technology

Capture your trip, stay in touch, and track your training. We cover the best tech products including cameras, beacons, smartwatches, apps, and more.

Turn your iPhone into a GPS unit

Navionics, a Wareham, Mass.-based electronic cartography and navigation company, launched an iPhone app that turns your phone into a charting tool. The Navionics Mobile lets…

Written by Stephen Regenold

Turin Bike Trainer

With a base price tag of $12,500, and configurations that will sell for more than $20,000, the Turin bike training system encapsulates a rider in…

Written by Stephen Regenold

Wired’s High-Tech Olympic Gear

This short article features five over-the-top athletics products that’ll purportedly be employed by Olympians next week in Beijing. My favorite is the Nike track shoe…

Written by Stephen Regenold

Cord Lock Light

It’s a cord lock. It’s a light. It’s the Cord Lock Light, a regular spring-loaded cincher as found on backpacks and sleeping bags, just with…

Written by Stephen Regenold

Gear Review: Petzl SiGNAL light

The bottle-cap-size SiGNAL light from Petzl is a “multidirectional performance safety light,” according to the company. It’s a backup light source and blinker made for…

Written by Stephen Regenold

Case Study: PLB in Action

A mountaineering accident last week prompted Bill Becher, a writer friend of mine from southern California, to deploy a personal locator beacon (PLB) in hopes…

Written by Stephen Regenold

The Jimi Wallet

After riding a self-proclaimed “Frankenbike” around the streets of San Francisco for several years, Mike O’Neill designed a new take on the stodgy old “Costanza”…

Written by Stephen Regenold

Review: SPOT Satellite Messenger

The much-talked-about SPOT satellite messenger is a first for outdoors users: The GPS-based locator beacon blips text-message data and lat/long coordinates to emergency services, friends…

Written by Stephen Regenold

Spyder’s $2,000 Ski Suit

What do 2,000 clams get you from Spyder in the realm of high-end ski outerwear? How about a shell jacket with RECCO avalanche-transceiver reflectors? Included.…

Written by Stephen Regenold

Polar RS800G3 System Review

The stratospherically priced RS800G3, a $499.95 sports watch system from Polar USA, is a product designed for a growing demographic of obsessive exercisers and fitness-gadget…

Written by Stephen Regenold

SteriPEN Adventurer Review

This review is about pills, underwear, an ultra-violet-light-emitting device, and most of all clean water. Indeed, if you don’t wanna get Legionnaires’ Disease (or diarrhea,…

Written by Stephen Regenold

Clip-Shot Camera Holder

Lyndon Wilson, a machinist from Noxon, Mont., rang me up last week to introduce his Clip-Shot camera holder. The product is essentially a small clamp…

Written by Stephen Regenold

Piezoelectric Pack

In a recently-published academic paper titled “Energy harvesting from a backpack instrumented with piezoelectric shoulder straps,” mechanical engineers from Michigan Technological University and Arizona State…

Written by Stephen Regenold

Digital HERO 3 column

The Digital HERO 3 from GoPro (www.goprocamera.com) was created to take the hassle out of capturing Kodak moments — as well as video — in…

Written by Stephen Regenold

SPOT Satellite Messenger

I blogged on this last week in my OR Show wrap-up, but the PLB-like device deserves a bit more attention. Indeed, the SPOT Satellite Messenger…

Written by Stephen Regenold

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