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. The qua Beat is a set • of wireless sports headphones that come with their own lOS fitness app and which monitor your heart rate from your earlobe — so you feel like you're wearing just the one bra, or no bra at all.

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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 London flat, you've cocked a snook at the traditional hi-fi and taken to this upstanding Yamaha, with its vertical-loading CD slot, iPod dock, DAB+ radio and USB connection, as well as an alarm that filters out the high frequencies in music until you're ready to handle them. It is, you think, highly unconventional.
£500, uk.yamaha.com

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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 it on about a bazillion GoPro HD cams. Fine for sponsored motorsport pros, no good for us weekend warriors. Step forward the Chameleon, which films simultaneous 720p, 30fps streams via both a forward- and rearward  facing cam, presenting them as split-screen. Just the thing for your upcoming mum's car gymkhana.

uk.oregonsclentific.com

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