Week 8

Does your sweat taste salty? sweet? Are your muscles fatigued?

New wearable fitness technology will soon be able to tell you these things by drinking...YES, drinking your sweat! YUMMY!

I haven't bought into this new fitness craze where everyone is obsessed with counting their steps and monitoring their temperature.  I believe in good old fashioned working out and I don't need a watch or my cell phone to tell me how good of a workout I've done.

However, this new prototype device created by a UC Berkeley Professor has sparked my interest by chemically analyzing sweat and sending the information live to your smartphone.  I am especially intrigued by the ability of this device to monitor glucose in the sweat.

Check out this video as well:

Week 7

Well how did I miss out on this website for so long?

Geek.com is my new favorite site! I have found a ton of amusement here today, but I'm choosing to share with you just one article.

Cell phones. We all love them and we definitely want more of them!  So, why not look at these beauties from Android that threaten to make us drool sometime in 2016?

I love my LG G4, but I'm a sucker for the latest and greatest Android device and forsee myself upgrading to the G5 sometime this spring! yay!

Week 6

This just makes me giggle. Sorry to anyone who actually did this to their phone, but come on, why do you even need to change the year on your phone to 1970?

Apparently there is flaw inside iPhones! I used to own several, way back in 2008 when I still believed in Apple products.  I'll save my rant for another day.  However, just this week a news story about iPhones warning users NOT to set their phone to the date January 1, 1970...aparently if you do this your phone becomes an even bigger and quite expensive brick!

You can also read more at NBC news and heed the warnings!

Week 5

Cell phones. Most of us use them today. I like being connected to the world around me, both via technology and by just being outdoors in nature.  Although winter is beautiful, I am longing for spring and summer to arrive as I have big plans for outdoor hiking adventures.  As soon as it is safe to drive and hike to, I plan to make it to the top of Broken Top mountain this year! Last year's adventure was cut short by lack of daylight- it's a long story.

Regardless of how often I go outdoors to be in nature, you can be sure that probably 90% of the time I bring my cell phone. Not only do I want to capture great photos, but I also want to be able to call for help if the need arises.

Unfortunately, most cellular phones do not work in the deep woods, although I find that my friends with Verison are able to do so. This is more true for those of us who use T-Mobile as our carriers.  Although I love the fast download speeds and accesibility, I despise the lack of cell phone service. I cannot even call out if I go 10 miles up Century Drive on the way to the sno-parks. 

So, although T-Mobile has recently won the open-signal speed tests, it still lacks in user ability to make an actual phone call!  I am considering switching just so that I can have the peace of mind knowing I can get a call out while in the wilderness.