Olympic athletes swap fitness data for latest gadgets in bid for 2012 edge

Devices record diet, sleep and exercise patterns

The US track cycling team are using glucose monitors, sleep trackers and genetic reports

Data will be used to improve products for the amateur health and fitness market

Olympic athletes are providing fitness data in exchange for high-tech gadgets that record sleep, diet and exercise patterns to help improve their performance.
Health technology companies are using the athletes’ results to develop tracking devices for the burgeoning fitness and weightloss markets.
The track cycling team from the US are testing a sleep monitor, a glucose monitor - which can help diabetics manage blood sugar - and genetic reports on their nutritional needs and muscular capacity.


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Coffee gadgets ahoy!

The clever gadget geeks among us are endlessly coming up with easier and more convenient ways for us to order and drink our coffee, tailoring the experience and the format of the coffee exactly to our requirements.
One of the new gadgets to hit the news headlines is the TextSpresso.
What is it?

This is a coffee machine which has a special function – you can operate it and send coffee orders to it, by sending an SMS.
That’s to say, you can text this new type of coffee machine and tell it what to do, what sort of coffee you want, to your own specification.

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Solar storm could disrupt gadgets Thursday

Earth’s magnetic field is about to be shaken like a snow globe by the largest solar storm in five years. 

Earth’s magnetic field is about to be shaken like a snow globe by the largest solar storm in five years.
After hurtling through space for a day and a half, a massive cloud of charged particles is due to arrive early Thursday and could disrupt utility grids, airline flights, satellite networks and GPS services, especially in northern areas. But the same blast could also paint colorful auroras farther from the poles than normal.

Scientists say the storm, which started with a massive solar flare earlier in the week, is growing as it races outward from the sun, expanding like a giant soap bubble. When it strikes early Thursday, the particles will be moving at 4 million mph.

“It’s hitting us right in the nose,” said Joe Kunches, a scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo.

Astronomers say the sun has been relatively quiet for some time. And this storm, while strong, may seem fiercer because Earth has been lulled by several years of weak solar activity.

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13 Gadgets We Love on Valentine’s Day

Never assume inveterate hardware nerds don’t have feelings. We Gadget Lab editors, reporters and photographers are actually creatures of great emotional depth and complexity. In fact, almost to a person, we’re all in committed, loving relationships -- and most of our partners aren’t even tech geeks.

Yes, we’re full of love. Most of our adoration is reserved for Valentine’s sweethearts, but we wouldn’t be good at our jobs if we didn’t reserve a bit of fetishistic hardware worship for our favorite gear as well.

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Sonos: The Gadget I Can’t Live Without

This has been a big month for Sonos. After six years of quietly transforming the way people enjoy, share and rediscover their music collections, they’ve finally passed a major milestone. As they put it – they’re now playing music in a million rooms around the world.
OK, so compared with Apple’s terrifying expansion and gradual domination of humanity’s gadget obsession, a million units is pretty small potatoes. But Sonos has never seemed to be about scoring record sales or laying waste to the home stereo market – they just enjoy making great products that people love. They’re the gadget equivalent of the small family-run restaurant that you have to book two weeks in advance. The kind that turns down the offer of larger premises because they worry that they wouldn’t be able to offer the same level of service if they had three times as many covers.

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Strong growth for online sales

Online sales in March were 14 per cent up on last year, according to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index with shoppers spending a total of £5.1 billion online.
And the widening gap between multi-channel and online-only retailers continued to increase in March. Those with both a high-street and online presence witnessed a 19 per cent growth on average compared with March last year, while online experienced just 6 per cent.
The Index has seen 18 per cent growth during the first quarter compared with the same period last year, – the strongest first quarter performance in three years.
Chris Webster, head of retail consulting and technology at Capgemini said: “The 18 per cent growth in the Index during Q1 is indicative of a new trend. Consumers are indeed tightening belts, but they are still shopping, and have simply become more strategic in their buying habits.”

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