Current patent filings (in black and white so the OS looks like System 6) show a full-featured program spanning OS X and an iPhone-like device, designed to guide and track you on a fitness regimen, complete with advice, illustrations, rep counts and stuff like that. It looks like there are suggestions of accessories for […]

Recent patent filings (in black and white so the OS looks like System 6) show a full-featured program spanning OS X and an iPhone-like device, designed to guide and track you on a fitness regimen, complete with advice, illustrations, rep counts and stuff like that. It looks like there are recommendations of accessories for pedometers, blood pressure monitors, and so on as well. I recently ragged on them for not having a robust enough fitness program (Nike+ is cool but kind of skimpy), so I’m very pleased to see this.

Now, let the naming start. iFit? iSweat? iNeedToGoToTheGym? iAmSoFat? iT’sAlmostSummer? Poddy Trainer? I like that one.

Via [crunchgear]

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You’ve seen Ben Heck’s homemade gaming devices featured here a lot, and there’s a reason for it: Adam Frucci cares about him. Which is why he slathered much praise on the hardware modder in this Reuters profile. What would you want to know about the guy that turns two handed controllers into one handed ones? How about that he used to work for a sign-making business and doesn’t actually play a whole lot of games, despite the love he gives to the accessories. [Reuters]

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Plasma speakers have been around in science labs since the 1950s, but that doesn’t make them any less astonishing in the 2000s. Like a standard speaker, plasma speakers work by creating compression waves in the air. But unlike a standard speaker that uses magnets and paper/plastic/etc to drive these compressions, plasma speakers are using the non-gas, non-liquid, non-solid “fourth state of matter” plasma.

What can be tough to see in these demonstrations (the first is the completed setup, the second is an FM-based prototype) is that pitch is altered by the constantly shifting intensity of the plasma arc (the creator puts the frequency response range at 200Hz to 12kHz, and the speaker runs at 50W).

So are these beauts for sale? From the creator:

A lot of work to do before I could consider selling - the safety aspect for starters.

Apparently someone needs to send this guy the memo. The danger is precisely what makes plasma so freaking cool.

Thanks Martin!

Via [Gizmodo]

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