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Nintendo trademarks 'Active Health' {Joystiq}
Jan 13th 2009 11:28AM We issued a report looking at the development of this sector a few months ago: http://www.changeist.com/changeism/2008/11/10/the-growth-of-fitness-ecosystems.html
The future at the airport involves your phone, fingers and eyes {Gadling}
Dec 26th 2008 3:35PM I don't actually think this will make for significantly smoother, quicker or cost-effective travel. Unfortunately, as we all experience when we travel by air, the system is only as fast as its slowest component allows it to be. Air travel is a vast supply chain of poorly interconnected technologies, often dependent on very analog underpinnings.
Without commensurate improvements in everything from air traffic management, airline yield management and mass transit infrastructure systems, travelers equipped with shiny new mobile devices and signed up for biometric ID systems will only get to a stationary, dirty, expensive aircraft more quickly, and be held in the waiting area at the gate for an equally long time, watching as their upgrade to first class becomes hypothetical due to eventual flight cancellation.
We can keep making the most wired and efficient travelers more wired and efficient, but what is dearly needed is a massive upgrade to our thinking about the moving parts of the air travel system—abysmally poor airline management, short-sighted investment strategies, lax oversight and lack of initiatives to spur competition, and an ill conceived security approach all are conspiring to grind air travel to a halt, leaving us to phone home and listen to music on our bluetooth headsets as we bed down for a night of sleep or another lost day in some broken down air terminal at a major system hub.
None of this is to say we shouldn't strive for more efficient personal travel management, but if we can't actually travel, advanced travel information and ID technologies are kind of, well, ornamentation.
Nintendo's Wii Fit gets official, set to launch in just two days {Engadget}
May 19th 2008 1:51PM Let's hope this isn't used as a fitness crutch, or worse yet, promoted as one:
http://www.changeist.com/changeism/2008/5/19/wii-are-fit-but-we-are-not.html
Samsung and Adidas team up to launch F110 fitness handset {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 6th 2008 12:12PM Going head to head with competition who is further out front in Apple and possibly Nokia, who have had basic fitness phones for some time though with less functionality.
See more here about Nike+iPod implications: http://tinyurl.com/287h6f
Nokia's "Remade" concept is all waste -- no, seriously {Engadget}
Feb 13th 2008 11:03AM Extending the lifecycle of the device will be equally important:
http://www.changeist.com/changeism/2008/2/13/upcycling-consumer-electronics.html
Here's the $2,500 Tata Nano, the Indian peoples car {Autoblog Green}
Jan 10th 2008 10:25AM A bigger picture analysis of this story is here:
http://www.changeist.com/changeism/2008/1/7/china-india-and-pragmatic-technology-design.html
