Trace | Activity Monitor For Action Sports

If you´re a runner or cyclist you´ll find great tools and apps to track your activity and monitor your progress, but nothing similar exists for action sports. That is why a Los Angeles-based startup called ActiveReplay created Trace, a small, light, and durable advanced piece of action sports technology. It is designed to attach to your surfboard/skateboard/snowboard/skis and gather data including speed, distance, jump height and rotation. Trace comes with three apps, for surf, skate and snow sports, you can check your performance, your stats, and how other people are doing all around you. watch the video

Trace is currently on Kickstarter and hopes to raise enough support for production and begin shipping by February 2014.

GALILEO | ROBOTIC DOCK

Galileo is another product born from a very successful kickstarter campaign(received more than $700,000 in funding!). Now available for purchase, Galileo is a Bluetooth robotic platform for iOS devices, a dock you can control from any place in the world. Once you plug in your phone, you can control it remotely with a swipe of your finger, rotate, tilt, or even set it to automatically track a moving object. Using Galileo and the Sphere app(free), you can have long-di...
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PIEPS AVALANCHE TRANSCEIVERS

If you´re an experienced snow rider, you´re most probably into Backcountry skiing in remote places, but the thrill of riding on unpatrolled areas can be hazardous due to, exhaustion, weather, cliffs, rock fall, tree wells, and scariest of all - avalanches. Pieps develop transceivers for backcountry skiers who regularly venture into serious terrain, they are equipped with all the cutting-edge features needed for the purpose of finding people or equipment buried und...
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1st Mate Overboard Safety System

Falling overboard is one of the most dangerous and life-threatening things that can happen at sea, especially falling overboard without anyone noticing. 1st Mate is a marine safety and security system that is designed to keep that from happening. It utilizes wearable fobs for boat captain and up to seven passengers, a central hub that is connected to the boat´s propulsion system, and a mobile app. If any of the passengers fall overboard, their fob transmits a distr...
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