lqua Beat: Brather clever

    Heart rate monitors are great for tracking your training, but they do usually have one drawback: the chest strap. If you're a chap, wearing an HRM on a chest strap feels like you're wearing a bra. If you're a girl, wearing an HRM on a chest strap feels like you're wearing two bras....

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Yamaha Restio ISX-800: A hi-fi less ordinary

You pride yourself on breaking convention. You drive a Citroen GS and have a Symbian smartphone because you like that its roots can be traced to the EPOC OS of your old Psion organiser. You write in fountain pen, but not into a Moleskine notebook. In the bedroom of your converted prison block East...

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Oregon Scientific ATC Chameleon: 'Khana 'khana 'khana chameleon

No doubt you've watched Ken Block's latest rally car gymkhana video, where he bezzes around San Francisco doing jumps and drifts, exhibiting the kind of extreme vehicular control that belies the fact that he has yet to make any impression on the WRC whatsoever. You'll have also noticed that he filmed...

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