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    Sand-Covered Gyms

    The ‘Baja Body Athletic Club’ covered one of its workout rooms with a sand floor in an attempt of increase the intensity of members’ workouts. The interior of the room was only altered with a sand floor while everything else ...
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    France Has a Power Plant Fueled by Cheese

    The small French city of Albertville is nestled in the mountains along the border between France and Italy and is powered in part by cheese. Though some may argue many of the French people are powered by cheese, Albertville’s power ...
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    Icaros fitness machine powers your workouts with virtual reality

    Munich-based startup Icaros GmbH has a new way to motivate people to exercise more. Its somewhat intimidating fitness system blends the physical world with the virtual world, making you the protagonist of your own video game while working key muscles ...
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    A company is developing a temporary tattoo to mimic the functions of wearable tech

    FORGET buying a fitness tracker or smartwatch because those wearable devises are so passé. While most wearables on the market may be functional in helping assist with daily routines, they can sometimes be a bulky eyesore. This is where technology start-up ...
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    Thermoelectric IKEA furniture could charge your phone with heat from your coffee

    All around us, appliances, lighting, computers and even coffee cups radiate heat that dissipates into the air, unused. But what if we could capture that energy and transform it into electricity? A pair of design students at the Institute of ...
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    Why does health and fitness tracking lead to success for some and failure for others?

    Irecently spent two weeks tracking my calorie intake, calorie burn, exercise and pretty much every aspect of my lifestyle for a fortnight. What was more surprising than my own personal experience was seeing how others reacted. From just a few ...
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    Workplace wellness: 7 workplace design experts weigh in on the next big thing

    There are many drivers increasing general awareness creating perhaps the most predominant trend of 2014: Wellness in the Workplace. I recently spoke with Joan Blumenfeld, of Perkins & Will, and one of the pioneers in this area, who worked with ...
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    How Virtual Reality Can Help Hotels Compete with Airbnb

    An emerging technology might offer hotels the means to retain the market share they’ve worked hard to achieve. As a virtual reality industry boom quickly approaches, smart hoteliers should consider creating VR experiences as a way to set themselves apart from AirBnB hosts. ...
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    LiFi internet: First real-world usage boasts speed 100 times faster than WiFi

    Li-Fi, a super-fast alternative to Wi-Fi, is finally moving from research labs to the real world after an Estonian startup implemented the technology within a commercial context. Velmenni, a recent finalist at the Slush 100 startup competition in Helsinki, revealed ...