Divers who are fans of the T-Touch series from Tissot have been awaiting the release of the Sea Touch line. T-Touch has long been a favorite for connoisseurs of fine watches, offering the combination of the look of a stylish watch and the features of a sport watch. Sea Touch continues that tradition, with functionalities tailored to deep-water diving. This is a diver’s watch, plain and simple… with looks that will go anywhere.

Sea Touch features a sapphire crystal touch-screen (as with all the T-Touch line), and the touch-feature works underwater even with diving gloves on. Sapphire crystal is the hardest substance aside from diamonds, making it extremely scratch-proof.

The watch features the new double-seal system that only Tissot uses, highly water resistant, making the watch waterproof down to 200 meters. Because it’s a diver’s watch, Tissot customized it for divers: The functions include a depth gauge, a dive log book, and rates of descent and ascent, as well as a compass.

With Sea Touch, Tissot switched from a titanium case to a stainless steel one; steel has proven to do well underwater without discoloration when properly manufactured. Watch bands are available in steel and rubber (orange or black), and the face is available in black or white.

Tissot Sea-Touch is sold on Amazon

Related posts:

• Tissot T-Touch: Tissot T-Touch: not just a precise watch
• Tissot T-Touch Trekking: Trek Further with Tissot T-Touch

The ContourHD Videocamera is a wearable camera that you can wear almost anywhere. That description applies in more ways than one. This is a light, water-resistant, shock-, dust-, vibration- and impact-resistant video camera that weighs in at just 4 ounces (116 grams) and can handle rain, dust, or snow with ease—so wear it anywhere you go.

The ContourHD utilizes VholdR’s unique TRailTM Mounts, allowing the camera to slide and lock onto a series of different mounts that are available. This means you can wear the camera on your helmet, of course, but also on your goggles, handlebars, seat-mount, roll-bar… etcetera. So while you’re wearing the camera almost anywhere, you can literally wear it almost anywhere.

The camera itself is far more than a gadget. This is a HD resolution, 5 megapixel camera with a 135 degree wide-angle lens and a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio. And lasers. Yes, lasers. The ContourHD uses two lasers to help you line up the shot, since you’re not looking down the barrel of the camera when it’s mounted on your shoulder. Turn on the lasers, and where they intersect is the focal point of the shot. Nothing could be easier, except maybe actually taking the shot, which the ContourHD does with an oversized, 1-button control that’s manageable even if you’re wearing gloves.

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This is fun. The FreeLoader Pro Solar Charger is a pocket-sized device that includes high-power solar panels as well as a USB cable. Either will charge up the FreeLoader’s internal battery which will, in turn, deliver a full charge to a digital camera battery, supply a cell or smart phone with 70 hours of talk time, or load up your GPS navigator.

This is really ideal for long treks into the wilderness. No need to tote along a heavy package of extra batteries so that your GPS-based electronic wilderness guide can keep up with you. Now you can reload it on the mountain top with solar power. The FreeLoader out of the box includes 10 power adaptors, allowing it to supply power to iPod, iPhone, iTouch, Nano, Nokia phones using both standard and mini adaptors, all current Samsung phones, all current LG phones, all current Sony Ericsson phones, Nintendo DS Lite , Motorola phones, Blackberry and most smartphones, Garmin, SatMap and most GPS, Bluetooth headsets, PDA’s, Sony PSP, Archos and most MP4 players, 2 way radios, portable DVD players, e-books, digital cameras and PDA’s.

That’s before you buy anything else! The lithium ion battery will hold its charge up to 3 months. That should be long enough to find some sunlight.

The Swedish FireSteel is designed to beat matches, hands-down, at least in the rain. Or the creek. No you can’t start a fire underwater with this thing, but it’s close!

The FireSteel is a two-part gadget consisting of a steel stem, rather resembling a thick black key, and a striker. The two parts are connected by a cord just long enough to allow you to use the FireSteel without disconnecting the two parts. When the striker rubs along the shaft of the FireSteel, the FireSteel throws off 3,000°C sparks (5,500°F). To turn these into fire, it takes just a little patience and the right materials.

Set the FireSteel above some fine tinder to get your first flames. Maya Dust is a tinned product created for this purpose, but flammable fibers and fine grass also work. Once your first flame arises, set just a small amount of fine kindling on the flame… heavier grass stalks are about right. When those catch, move to heavier kindling, such as small twigs. Once that’s going well, build up the heat with some small pieces of wood, and add logs when your little fire gets strong enough to catch them.

This process might take a little practice to master, but once you have the hang of it, you’ll never be fireless again.

Go get the Swedish Firesteel on ThinkGeek

No time to work out as much as you would like? Skechers Shape-Ups line of women’s shoes turns your entire day into a workout.

Not designed for running, the Shape-Ups shoe features a sculpted rubber rocker bottom outsole and a Kinetic Wedge soft foam insole that is designed both to absorb shock and convert every step into aerobic exercise. Walking around the office, shopping, or buying groceries can now be part of what you do for yourself, in addition to being what you do.

Skechers offers clinical trial results to support their claim: significant weight loss, increased gluteal strength and improved lower back endurance observed over the course of a six-week trial with no changes on the part of the participants other than wearing the Shape-Up shoes.

The women’s Optimize model features a smooth black leather upper on a lace-up sneaker. The complete line includes a wide range of shoes; women’s Shape Ups are available in 17 different styles, ranging from smooth lace-ups to tri-color designs to sleek strap-closure models. Colors tend toward neutral, primarily featuring black, white, grey, natural, and stone shades.

Now you can choose Skechers Shape Ups instead of choosing between walking to the post office and working out.

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RunKeeper is a handly little iPhone app that uses your iPhone’s GPS capabilities to help you track your fitness activities.

Collect and store data during your workout regarding, distance, time, speed, pace, (estimated) calories burned, elevation and route taken (on a map). The RunKeeper iPhone app interfaces with your personal web space at runkeeper.com. This is where the data is stored, and where you can access it anytime, anywhere.

RunKeeper runs compatibly with the iPod function of your iPhone, letting you listen to music and even change songs without leaving the RunKeeper app.

RunKeeper is free, but RunKeeper Pro offers some nice additions as well.

If you like, the RunKeeper Pro app will talk to you during your workout through your iPhone’s headphones, giving you updates on your activity as you go. You can program a workout into RunKeeper in advance, and it will then act as a coach, providing audio cues as you complete your time-based, distance-based, or interval training program.

The RunKeeper Pro app will also automatically start your designated workout playlist when you launch the app, if you so choose.

With either RunKeeper or RunKeeper Pro, you have the ability to use email or any of a number of social sites including Facebook and Twitter to share your activities with your friends. Use RunKeeper to up your performance by creating some competition between you and your friends.

A lot of gadgets are capable of doing what RunKeeper does, but many of us are finding ourselves overwhelmed with gadgets. The RunKeeper lets you do more with the gadget you already have, your iPhone.

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Citizen introduces the classic watch with unique features.

This is a titanium watch with a truly timeless elegance in its basic design and presentation. Titanium makes the watch extremely light for its size and offers a unique coloration that only titanium has.

The Skyhawk line is designed with aviation in mind, and as such delivers both 24-hour local time (with the push of two buttons) and current local time in over 20 different cities from around the world.

The bezel includes a slide-rule function. Most of us have forgotten what slide rules even look like, but for pilots they’re an essential tool of the trade.

This is a solar powered watch that operates with Citizen’s unique Eco-Drive: A full solar charge delivers somewhere in the neighborhood of four years of operating time in complete darkness, with a loss of less than four seconds per month. Operation in complete darkness is not 100%, as the watch does not include backlighting. But there are large markers and some glowing lines on the face, and the hands of the watch glow, so it should be reasonably easy to at least tell the time in the dark. And if the darkness happens to be caused by getting dunked in a body of water, that works too: The Skyhawk is water resistant to 100 meters.

Get the Citizen Skyhawk on Amazon

Olympus Stylus Tough 8000

If your idea of sport is someone else’s idea of crazy, then this is probably the camera that you need to capture your adventures. Plenty of cameras are tough, but the Stylus Tough 8000 from Olympus is double-tough.

This 12-megapixel compact digital camera boasts 6.6 foot shockproof capability. That’s nearly twice what most other cameras in this category can handle. Drop it, bump it, carry it over the edge of a cliff with you—this camera can take it.

It can also take immersion in water down to 33 feet, taking clear, bright pictures from under the kayak as well as from inside it.

Shooting in the snow, biting it at the bottom of the jump… no problem, as this camera is freezeproof down to 14F (-10C) and crushproof to 220 pounds.

And while you’re doing all that, you’re doing it in clear, steady style with 3.6 times optical and 5 times digital zoom and dual image stabilization: sensor-shift image stabilization compensations for motion of the camera while digital image stabilization compensates for motion in the target.

Find yourself on top of Everest on a clear day? In-camera panorama automatically blends three images into one panoramic shot while you simply scan the camera along the horizon while holding down the shutter button. Review it, edit it, save it, delete it—the 2.7” LCD monitor makes it easy.

How do you review your shots in the snow with your gloves on? Tap control. Picture playback, shadow adjustment, flash mode and more are accessible by tapping specific points on the body of the camera.

Buy the Olympus Stylus Tough-8000 on Amazon

You would love to have a camera that geotags your photos. But you already have a digital camera that you love and you’re torn between foregoing the ability to geotag your pictures and settling on a new camera, saying goodbye to your favorite one. Do neither. GiSTEQ’s PhotoTrackr adds geotagging capability to any digital camera, without having to touch your camera.

The way it works is this: You begin by time-synchronizing your camera and the PhotoTrackr. Then just take the PhotoTrackr along with you on your expedition. When you get back, load the GPS data from the PhotoTrackr and the pictures from your camera into your PC. PhotoTrackr software will automatically geotag your images.

PhotoTrackr can also be used with the SportTracks software plug-in. SportTracks uses the data from your PhotoTrackr to help you accurately maintain your exercise journal. You can also enter activities manually, keeping all your exercise information in one place. The SportTracks helps you analyze your activities with weekly and monthly charts of times, distances, pace, and calories burned. Getting ready for a long run? SportTracks can tell you whether or not your run is getting rained out. Track your shoe mileage if you like. Analyze your pace in detail, in conjunction with detailed GPS routes, including street maps, topographic maps and satellite images. Unlike many activity-analysis programs, this one keeps all your data on your own PC, not someone else’s server.

With PhotoTrackr, you keep your camera, keep your data, and keep pace with the benefits of geotagging technology.

PhotoTrackr comes in three versions: CD111, DPL700 and DPL900. Check them out on PhotoTrackr Website.

We all want to be healthy, but it takes motivation and an honest assessment of where we’re at and what we’re actually doing to get healthier. There are several online programs to help us track and assess our nutrition and activity levels, but they lack the convenience of being able to use them on the go without a palmtop. There are various ways of tracking your activity and nutrition on the go, but they lack the power and ease of one of the online programs.

The DailyBurn bridges this gap. This is a free, online program that lets you establish a profile, analyze your starting point, set goals, and track your progress. There is a sizeable database that includes 170,000 foods and recipes, making it easy to find what you’ve eaten and add it to your food log with a few clicks. Get exercise advice from others or build your own activity goal plan. The graphical tracking capability makes monitoring your progress easy and is very motivating.

And you can take the DailyBurn with you. The site offers an iPhone app that lets you take track your nutrition and activities on the go, and then sync it with your DailyBurn profile at your convenience. Another very handy iPhone app called the Food Scanner is also available. This one lets you find a food in the DailyBurn database just by scanning the bar code of the product, or by entering the food name. DailyBurn is also available as an iGoogle gadget.

No more excuses. Get going now with DailyBurn on the go.

Some links:

• DailyBurn Website: www.dailyburn.com
• DailyBurn Apps: for iPhone, Food Scanner and iGoogle gadget
• Tim Ferris article about the iPhone food scanner