How many times have you seen this: your Camelbak reservoir spilling all the water and soaking all your backpack, including your last generation mobile phone. Your precious little digital camera swimming in you pocket because of the rain (that’s why you should have bought a waterproof digital camera, or a better coat!). You kid using […]

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Warren McLaren has written an extensive article on TreeHugger on how to green your outdoor sports.
Although this is not a gadget I highly recommend reading the article for two reasons:

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The GlobalSat GH-615B is the new sports watch from GlobalStat that integrates a GPS receiver to record routes. This product is specifically aimed at hikers, runners, bikers, skiers, or any type of outdoor sports practitioner.
In many ways it’s similar to the Garmin Forerunner 205: size, technology used, price (with the Amazon discount), lack of heart […]

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MapMyFitness is a family of sites that you can use to share your workouts with others, view the evolution of your fitness training, use fitness calculators and tools and much more. At this moment there are five sites in the family, each aimed at a different sport/activity:

MapMyRun.com
MapMyRide.com
MapMyWalk.com
MapMyTri.com
MapMyHike.com

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I’ve recently written about the robust all-sports camera. The one presented here takes a different approach: a practical and quick operation. While is also designed for sport usage, it stands out for having a strap that you attach to your wrist. You carry it in the flat position and you flip it up […]

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