Nike's SportBand comes out as promised

It's always nice (and rare) to see a manufacturer actually release a product when promised. And Nike says it will be doing just that with the April 10 debut of its Nike+ SportBand, which had been promised to come out this month.

It seems pretty much as billed before: The main difference between this latest portable fitness system and previous versions from Nike is that it doesn't require a media player to work. The armband gauges such stats as speed, distance, time elapsed, and calories burned while giving runners access to features on Nikeplus.com for tracking progress and competing with others.

Or you could save the US$59 and let the boss monitor your physical state for you.

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Four ways to play with your food

My RSS reader is packed with food, gadget, and shopping blogs, and whenever I see something that might be worth sharing here I try to bookmark it for when I have time to write it up. Cruising through my bookmarks earlier today I started to notice a trend; I've been marking lots of products that are explicitly designed for playing with food. Apparently my inner child thrills at the thought of a mechanically assisted way to launch her broccoli across the room. So for her sake and yours, here are four tools for merging meal time and play time.

Air Fork One lends some credibility to the whole "here comes the plane into the hangar" story you try to sell to your toddler every night. So far it's a design concept only, but creative types can probably cobble together a reasonable facsimile on their own.

Today Apartment Therapy's gadget blog featured these Icetris ice cube trays. Use your freezer to transform everyday tap water into a nostalgia trip and drinking game all in one!
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Device charging for neat freaks

BlueLounge is a company that makes cable management cool, as seen by its SpaceStation desktop organizer we featured about a month back. Now it has announced the Sanctuary, a dish that holds your personal artifacts with cables that stick out of its base to charge a range of mobile devices.

Under its inner tray is a large AC adapter with many compatible connectors for device brands like Apple, Nokia and Samsung. It also has a built-in USB port so you can plug in a USB charger for any connector the Sanctuary happens not to have. You pick the connectors you need, run them through the cut-outs on the tray, and presto! No more messy tangles when charging your many devices.

Such elegance comes at a princely price of US$129.95. The company ships internationally so we in Asia should be able to purchase one without worries. For those who can't justify spending that amount on cable management, we are happy to direct your attention to this modified IKEA box that performs the same function and costs just 11.24 euros to make--workmanship not provided.

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Sudoku in a Rubik's Cube

If there's someone you dislike and want to get even with, quite elementary. Simply pass him or her the highly addictive Sudokube. It's so mindbogglingly mindbloggling, you'll need the combined Force of Yoda and Obi-Wan to decode this 2-in-1 mash-up of the interlocking Rubik's Cube puzzle and logic-based number placement Sudoku. And at US$4.50 (though Singapore is selling it at a pricey S$39), revenge is sweetly inexpensive.

We'd advise, though, that you master this before bestowing it on your enemy. So that when he or she flounders, you can step right in, unleash your brilliance, and utter righteously: "I am your father." Not for the numerically challenged or faint of heart.

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