| The Drill Down 382: Bad BloodThis week, Taylor Swift has “˜bad blood’ with Apple Music, what may be coming in the new Apple Watch 2, Nest‘s new camera, Twitter‘s secret project, Lexus teases a real hoverboard … and much much more on The Drill Down.
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon, Amazon Echo, Apple Music, Apple Watch, FaceTime, Fitbit, fitness, fitness tracker, home automation, hoverboard, Hue, iPhone, Jay-Z, Kindle, Lexus, Nest, Nest Cam, Project Lightning, quantum levitation, streaming music, Taylor Swift, Tidal, Toyota, Twitter | |
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| The Drill Down 375: I’ve Got the PowerThis week, Grooveshark & Secret shut down, the Oculus Rift has a ship date, Tesla revolutionizes home energy, and a hostage situation defused by a pizza … and much much more.
...continue reading » Tags: anonymity, Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, batteries, Elon Musk, Facebook, Fitbit, fitness, Grooveshark, IPO, Marvel, music streaming, Oculus Rift, Pizza hut, PowerPack, PowerWall, Red Widow, Scarlett Johansson, Secret, Tesla, Tesla Energy, Vine, Virtual Reality, VR, wearables | |
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| The Drill Down 359: Holograms!This week, Google Glass is dead, police can see inside your homes by remote, Virgin & Google want to send satellites into space, Microsoft unveils Windows 10 and holograms!!!
...continue reading » Tags: Augmented Reality, continuum, Cortana, fitness, Google, Google Glass, Hacking, holograms, Holographic, HoloLens, home automation, internet explorer, Jawbone, Jawbone Up, Lizard Squad, Medium, Microsoft, Office, OneDrive, piper, piper NV, Playstation Network, Project Spartan, Satya Nadella, social media, Sony, State of the Union, Surface Hub, Video Games, videogames, wearables, Windows, Windows 10, Windows Phone, Xbox Live | |
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| Geek Fit: The P90X Workout Experience |
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My biggest challenge to getting fit has always been just overcoming the pure boredom I experience when doing normal workouts. I have never liked the gym, weights are heavy, running is lame, and the people in workout videos make me feel stupid. That is probably why cycling was my key to success. Still, it’s hard to dispute the millions of before and after images of people that spend 90 days doing this crazy P90X workout and end up looking like a whole new person (or half a new person depending on your viewpoint). Whenever someone talks about a “workout” that involves watching a video, I can’t help but think about the legend himself, Richard Simmons. Growing up, Simmons’ curly afro and short shorts represented all I knew about fitness. Eventually, as I got into shape, I realized that to really hit the goal I had set for myself, I would need to try something new. I did the gym thing, but by myself I didn’t really know what would work best, which is why I reluctantly decided to try my luck at P90X.
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| Geek Fit: Ride Bikes! |
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If you have stumbled across my twitter account, chased me to any of the other sites I contribute to, stopped to look at the image attached to my profile-of-Doom, or taken a close look at the banner for this little series, you might begin to deduce that I am into cycling. It’s the truth, I am a lycra-wearing, two-wheeling, bell-ringing, cycling fool. In truth, cycling is really the only sport I actually care about, though a few years ago that wasn’t the case. When it came time to get in shape I decided that a bike would be my means to a healthier life. Cycling is a low impact activity, which is important to a bigger dude because just the act of carrying all your weight can present challenges to various work-outs like running. If you are really interested in the play by play of that story I created a Tumblr account when I started riding and chronicled everything up until a short while ago. It’s fun to re-read now and hear the excitement in my words over riding 10 miles and then to see the transformation to riding 100 miles a year later, and eventually to my first race earlier in 2012.
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