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In Pool Exercise Bike
Lensbaby announces Composer Pro camera lens
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The Inflatable Outdoor Color Dot Game

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 08:39 AM PDT

Swimming and cycling are two forms of exercise that are touted to burn the most calories, although the former tends to make you a whole lot hungrier than normal. With the In Pool Exercise Bike (which is patented by the way), you will need to be pretty well off in the first place since not everyone can afford a home with a pool in the first place. Of course, it should be a relative bargain to you if you fall under that category at a mere $899.95 a pop.

This patented exercise bike will need to be ridden while partially submerged in a pool so that you can improve strength as well as endurance without causing more strain on your body than it normally would. Having seen action in training by professional bicyclists, riders will need to turn a paddle that offers greater resistance compared to biking on land, which results in a slow, controlled motion that improves muscle strength and endurance.

Since the exercise is performed in water, the pool bicycle will also go some ways in relieving stress on weight-bearing joints, all the while increasing flexibility, and improving both balance and posture. It can work in just two feet of water, but of course, if you submerge it deeper, it will definitely increase the intensity of workouts which your body will appreciate. Anyone who bought this, does it work as advertised?

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Lensbaby announces Composer Pro camera lens

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 08:23 AM PDT

When it comes to being a professional photographer (or even a hobbyist at that), one would always find methods and ways to capture some really stunning or interesting images – that goes without saying, of course. After all, nobody likes to look at just plain ol’ portrait shots, one after another, without any variety. It is like eating a Big Mac every single day for the rest of your life.

Apart from learning and studying how to shoot from different angles, there is another method – to use an assortment of lenses. This is where Lensbaby comes in with their latest Composer Pro camera lens that delivers creative effects to your images. The Composer Pro refines and enhances the popular and award winning Lensbaby Composer, where the swivel ball is upgraded while its focus mechanism has been given a boost to deliver professional performance.

The Composer Pro's metal swivel ball design and refined focus mechanism are capable of delivering ultra-smooth focus and tilt control. The focus mechanism features a fluid and accurate dampened focus ring that is comparable to the focus mechanisms of the highest quality professional manual focus lenses. All of that ought to result in some really ground-breaking creative imagery.

The Composer Pro will play nice with the Lensbaby Optic Swap System, where it will ship with either the Double Glass Optic or the new Sweet 35 Optic installed. Each optic delivers a Sweet Spot of sharp focus, enabling photographers to move around the photo simply by tilting the Composer Pro's swiveling lens body. The Composer Pro will also play nice with the entire range of creative optics in the Lensbaby Optic Swap System, ranging from the Fisheye to the Soft Focus, Pinhole/Zone plate, Single Glass and Plastic.

Interested? Expect to pick up the Composer Pro for $300 a pop with the Double Glass Optic installed, or you can fork out $400 with the Sweet 35 Optic installed.

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Posted: 08 Apr 2011 10:01 PM PDT

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The Inflatable Outdoor Color Dot Game

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 08:38 PM PDT

Just to let you know, this is the Inflatable Outdoor Color Dot Game, not a certain game from Hasbro that has the same name as a popular 1996 movie about Tornadoes.

Hey, I’m sure that legal issues keep this particular product from saying the name of the game that it is clearly emulating. I seem to remember the board of that particular game being quite smaller, and this is 15-foot square is quite large. I also don’t remember the spinner of that board game looking like a prop from Wheel of Fortune.

As you can see, the board is inflatable and has a 1-hp airblower to keep the surface inflated. As you can also see, the rules of this game are the same as “the popular game that originated in the 1960s”.

Yeah, the game where you have to awkwardly twist around each other is bigger and made for the outdoors. Just think of how much fun this will be in the summertime, when everyone is wearing bathing suits! There’s an image from a movie would still be PG-13, right?

Anyway, before I get into any more obvious innuendo out of the old spotted game, I should tell you the price. It is about $2,000 on the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog.

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