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EA Sports Active 2 Released for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii

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EA Sports Active 2The Wii, especially the Wii Fit, was released on the premise that it would make us all much fitter; it would completely reverse the stereotype of couch-potato video gaming.

However, it never really took off to the extent that one would have imagined or Nintendo would have hoped. Sure some people do have some success with the Wii as a fitness device but it hasn’t lived up to its full potential.

But that hasn’t deterred other gaming companies. EA (Electronic Arts) for example is onto its 2nd version of EA Active and it even has its own heart rate monitor.

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Nonin GO2 Achieve Pulse Oximeter measures your blood’s oxygen level and your heart rate

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nonin go2 pulse oximeterHi-tech sports medicine is becoming cheaper by the day and finding its way into more and more homes of weekend warriors and folks who just want to have more control of their health.

Take the pulse oximeter for example. Stick your finger in it and it can measure oxygen saturation in your blood and of course your heart rate.

This particular model, the GO2 Achieve comes in an attractive sandstone orange color and is made by Nonin who claim to have invented fingertip pulse oximetry.

If you don’t like this one, there are surprisingly lots of other models to choose from.

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Price: $99.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Fitbit – track your sleep and daily activity

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Fitbit is the latest in a growing number of sleep and health tracking devices. Fitbit sets itself apart in tracking both your sleep habits and phyiscal activity.

fitbit sleep and activity trackerFitbit is a small device that clips to a wristband or piece of clothing while you sleep or go about your daily activities. Its motion sensor gathers data constantly and every time you come into range of the included wireless basestation, it downloads the data and sticks it into your personalized page on the Fitbit website. You can share your data with friends from there if you’d like.

Fitbit tracks how long you sleep vs lay in bed, and how many times you woke up. On the activity front, Fitbit tracks your steps, the intensity and duration of your activity, calories burned and reports on all of it.

Fitbit is aggressively priced at $99 and there is no subscription fee for using their website. It may not be as sophisticated as devices made specifically for sleep OR activity, like the Zeo is for sleep or the Ripxx is for exercise, but it’s only 1 device and much cheaper.

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Price: $99.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill Lets You Run, Walk, Jog With a Reduced Body Mass

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AlterG Anti-Gravity TreadmillHere is one of those gadgets that you either need to use in a specialized facility or be pretty wealthy to own yourself. The Anti-Gravity treadmill by AlterG allows you to walk, jog or run with an effectively lowered body mass.

Get into the specialized harness, seal it up, and set your target body mass at less than 100%, and get running. The obvious application is rehabilitation for people with lower body injuries, but there are others such as: weight training for older folks, weight loss for heavier individuals so that their weight does not have as much impact on their joints, and of course, aerobic conditioning for athletes and others.
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Cosmed’s Fitmate tracks metabolism, spits out target caloric needs

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Metabolism. Most of us wish ours was a lot higher, mostly so we could eat as many donuts and burgers as we wanted to without gaining weight. Tracking how our body reacts to changes in diet and exercise is tough, slow going work with no bottom-line number to really tell us where we’re at. However, there are devices that can do it, except they’re not in the $100 get-at-Walmart type of gadget.

For example, Cosmed makes a hand-held device that can track just how many calories an individual needs. You just breathe into it for seven minutes and then you get a report with your caloric needs, including how much exercise you need to lose x number of pounds and/or gain lean muscle mass. Just one catch – it costs $7,900.

via PressofAtlanticCity.com

FINIS Aqua Pulse – Swimmer’s Heart Rate Monitor

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FINIS Aqua Pulse

With the world swaying more and more towards one where people like to stay in shape, more products are appearing to help you out. Here’s where FINIS have found their niche – they’ve developed a heart-rate monitor to measure your body’s exertion and exercise intensity while swimming. They claim that other products aren’t quite up to the job when it comes to swimming as they keep falling off.

Aqua Pulse works by picking up your heart rate from your earlobe (slightly unusual – have to try that one out sometime) and then tells you the results by sending sound waves through the bones in your ear, as you wouldn’t be able to hear it through a normal speaker. It appears they’ve thought of just everything with this. Hit the read link for a full description and feature list.

More info from the manufacturer

Price: $139.99 (To be released this month)
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

‘Brain Gyms’ help you work out your mind

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‘Brain gyms’ which help members to ‘work out’ their brains are springing up all over the country. They’re essentially computer labs stocked with software that run users through mental-fitness tests and exercises.

One such example is a gym in San Francisco which charges $60/month. It’s interesting that people would find it more beneficial to go to such a place and pay a great deal more when they could get a similar (or possibly the exact same) service online or at home.

A simple search for ‘brain exercises’ yields millions of results, but within the first 10 results are different websites and references for online services, some of which are free.

Salter Nutri-Weigh Portable Dietary Scale

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If like so much of the rest of America, you need to clean up your diet and eat less, then you should take a look at the tech world for tools that will help you in your quest. One such excellent tool is a scale, and today’s models use technology to give you even more relevant information.

Take the Salter Nutri Weigh & Go Portable Dietary Computing Scale. Whew, that was a mouthful (pun intended!) The Nutri Weigh calculates the nutritional value of food by portion size, using its database of 1400 foods! It shows you 11 different pieces of nutritional info on each of those foods.
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