It’s the weekend and we’ve got gadgets for you today.
Coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time is a Wi-Fi scale. It measures your weight, body fat, lean mass and then sends it to a webpage, where you can see your diet and fitness progress graphed, charted and compiled. It can be password protected. Cost is $159 and you can access the page through an iPhone app or your computer.
Garmin, the GPS company, has a very cool new cycling computer. It mounts on your bicycle’s handlebars and besides, speed, distance and mapping, it offers a color touchscreen. It costs big bucks, $650 if you buy the complete bundle with maps. But cool it is.
And I’ve put up a video on my experience with the Droid 2 smartphone from Verizon. It’s a very stiff competitor. I did my NBC=TV PC Mike segment on it this week and you can read my review here but, bottomline, if you live outside a major metropolitan area and want reliable 3g coverage, I’d recommend it over the iPhone, which, saddled with AT&T’s horrible 3g coverage, is very iffy outside big cities for 3g.
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Stick with the Droid. It will grow on you.
Ha!!! Send your weight to a website??? I guess you could password protect this but still, a lot of us don’t want to share that sort of details. But it is a cool gizmo, Mike.