I recently got into a discussion over the internet with some friends about charging the iphone with shake technology.
Wouldn’t it be awesome to have a reserve battery in your cellphone for emergencies and all you had to do was shake your iphone for 30 secs or so to get it charged enough to use it? Think about it. Your cell phone could be charging its reserve while you run, walk, or while its in your pocket while you are walking!
Some have never heard of such, and here I was thinking that everyone knew about this kind of technology to charge things.
I cant remember when I heard about it first, but many many years ago my Aunt got me a shake light for my Birthday and I was wow’d at the simple technology behind it. It has this really neat wireless switch that works of magnetics. It charges itself with a magnet passing through another magnet with wires wrapped around it. This charges a capacitor and stores the power. It can be charge hundreds of thousands of times.
Here is a video from the company demonstrating all there is to know about the light.
Its a fantastic flashlight and I recommend it to anyone. Its a great light to keep in your trunk as you will never have to worry about batteries corroding. Take it hunting or fishing, camping, anywhere!
REMEMBER: if Apple decides to use this in one of their future phones. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST !!!
The ipad 2 was unveiled this week for a select few and I was lucky enough to take one home. Meeting CEO of Apple Steve Jobs was amazing and I thank him tremendously for allowing me to demo this beta unit of the iPad 2 with new higher screen resolutions.
Not too long ago I purchased some mini spy dvr sunglasses off of E-Bay to use when I was hiking or bike riding or something. They were so cheap and really couldn’t pass them up.
I think I spent $22 dollars total on them and waited about 3 weeks for them to arrive from Hong Kong, then I went to Wal-Mart and purchased a $20 micro sd card, I think the size was around 8 gigabytes.
From the parking lot after I inserted the memory card to record the video too, I set up to the gym. Here is the video of this trip
I think the video quality is exceptionally good.
Here is a walk around the back yard.
I think these glasses are great and could be used for all sorts of things like sports, hunting, fishing, cycling, etc.
I have been meaning to inform the masses through my blog about all the wonderful things that it can do.
Let me start by saying that I wanted one before they were available, yet I still held out until the first gen bugs were out of the way and gps was available. See I am a big fan of GPS and when they put it in their second gen Iphone, well I just had to have one.
I have not regretted it one bit. Best phone I have ever had!
I used to dream of an all in one compact phone and the Iphone is about 95% the phone I always wanted.
Let me tell you all the things that I wanted a cellphone to be/do and then I will come back to the IT DOES EVERTHING part. Continue reading →
I used to be able to run 3 miles all at once and not even think about it. I participated in 5k’s before too!
That was back in the good ole days.
These days its much harder for me to run. I get winded very easily. That’s why here lately I have decided to try my best to get back into better shape.
I have been doing so by bike riding, getting on the treadmill, and my favorite has become trail hiking/walking/running.
I get bored easily on treadmills or the track so fitness trails, biking, and hiking seem to be the solution to that.
With the help of my co-worker Justin, we decided that we would try to use Tuesdays and Thursdays to do some sort of cardio exercise. I may be running, walking, hiking the Lost Bluff trail, nature trail, or biking. Anyone of you that read this blog, know me and live in my area, feel free to hit me up through email or whatever if you would like to join in. The more the merrier.
Whats making all of this exercising even better is some of the apps that I have been using on the iphone.
So far I have used some really great apps like MotionX GPS, Trailguru, and Runkeeper.
MotionX-GPS was great but it loses gps signal if you fall below 3mph. I think this is terrible for a PAID FOR app as I sometimes only walk 2mph and I would like for it to log my walks. For bike riding it may be ideal, but I have yet to use it for that yet.
Trailguru is an awesome free app for the iphone. I like it alot, it has never lost signal even if I were to crawl. It makes really nice posts to the web as well as the ability to embed into your webpage as I have done here before. Right now however at the time of this writing, their website is down and I can not post my logs to their site.
Runkeeper was the very first app I ever put on my phone relating to walking/running and I have just now got back to using it. Mainly because the Trailguru website was down. I am glad I relaunched the use of this fabulous free program.
Today Justin and I did the regular 1 mile nature trail near the tennis courts at Grenada Lake. We ran it mostly and walked it in spots. We did it twice playing with the app runkeeper.
Below are the results using runkeeper. I think so far out of all 3 apps, I like it the best.
First time through.
