Gadgets
Hexoskin smart shirt announced for fitness buffs
With the continuous advancement in various technological fields, a boom in fitness tracking devices and smart exercising gadgets was not an unexpected development. There are already hundreds of smartwatches and fitness trackers on the market, as well as smart shorts and vests that can keep your gear safe while you’re exercising. The newest addition to the smart fitness gadgets field is the Hexoskin smart shirt.
The Hexoskin smart shirt is developed by a Canadian startup and it’s essentially a biometric shirt, similar to the one introduced by Ralph Lauren, equipped with various sensors that will record your every move. Hexoskin developed the shirt with athletes and fitness enthusiasts in mind, aiming to offer a more comfortable fitness monitoring device. Wearables generally tend to stand in your way when exercising because they might be uncomfortable or might get damaged because of the environment your exercising in, or because of sweat and water permeation. Hexoskin aims to compete with Ralph Lauren’s Polo Tech smart shirt, although it basically offers the same type of fitness tracking any other device does. It can track your heart rate, sleep cycles, breathing rate and volume, and integrates all these measurements in order to give you a complete overview of your exercising routine. The Hexoskin shirt will also determine heart rate variability so that it can tell you whether you are stressing your body or overtraining.
The Hexoskin shirt syncs the measurements it makes with a dedicated Hexoskin app for Android 4.0 and above and iOS 7 and above. You can access all your data on an online dashboard, or even on a PC or laptop. The Hexoskin shirt has three main sensors and a device coupled to them that will hang on to you for 14 straight hours of training. The Hexoskin wearable also features Bluetooth, open data API and it’s actually machine washable. If you decide that you would like to have such a thing in your closet, the Hexoskin starter kit will set you back $399 and the package will include the Hexoskin biometric shirt, a Hexoskin Bluetooth recording device, the Hexoskin app and a USB cable with which you can charge the device and connect it to your phone or PC.
Want more classic Metal Gear Solid remakes on PS5? You’ll need to speak Konami’s language—dollar bills—to express your desire.
“Regarding remakes of previous games in the series other than Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, we will listen to player demand and consider accordingly,” a Konami official told IGN.
Konami explained that “we chose Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater because it depicts the birth of Big Boss (Naked Snake), which is the starting point of the Metal Gear series.” Fans wishing it would last forever contributed.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, yes? Maybe you’ll buy another disc to show Konami you’ll pay again?
The Romanian Competition Council is investigating Sony for abusing its console gaming market dominance. How exactly? The RCC says Sony sells video games exclusively through the PlayStation Store and blocks competing distributors from accessing activation codes.
“These practices would have reduced the purchasing options for PlayStation-compatible video games, leading to higher prices for video games on this type of console,” the RCC’s press release (in Romanian) states on ResetEra. These practices discourage Romanian studios from making PlayStation-compatible games.
The RCC is serious, too, having inspected Sony’s European headquarters to find out what happened. The press release states that “1.3 million console video game users” and “127 video game development studios” would be affected by Sony’s anti-competitive practices.
We’re not lawyers, but we believe digital game codes can’t be bought from other retailers, preventing price competition. Sony allowed the practice until a few years ago, so it’s interesting that it’s back.
After the COVID-19 supply collapse, Sony CEO Jim Ryan is optimistic about PS5 sales. The Sony executive anticipates the PS5, the best-selling console for months, will sell 108 million units.
That’s difficult stuff considering Sony needs to sell 70 million more PS5s. Since supply has increased, consoles are selling like hotcakes in major countries, suggesting the firm is above 40 million.
Ryan stated in a recent games business briefing webcast and Q&A (thanks, TweakTown):
“The 70 million, I think, is the existing PlayStation 4 user base, and while we would hope to convert a large number of those people, we will definitely target and definitely be successful in bringing large numbers of gamers who did not own a PlayStation 4, and in many instances, who have never owned a PlayStation at all.”
Mr. Ryan’s numbers—should we focus on the 108 part?
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