Have you ever been jogging or biking and glanced at your watch to check your pace and crashed and burned? Reportedly that’s what happened to Ian Andes.
For those who don’t know Mr. Andes, he is the inventor of Sportiiiis. He has a story that every athlete can relate to, a brand name that is clever, and a product that sounds rather ingenuous.
In simplistic terms, Sport-iiiis might be called a sports version of Google Goggles. The product is a device that is attached to a person’s sunglasses. For bicyclists, the device use audible prompts and visual colored-LED displays to present performance data from an ANT+ cycling computer attached to the bicycle. This allows cyclists to safely receive vital feedback and plan their output (cadence, speed, or heart rate) when they are going down a hill at 60 mph, scaling Independence Pass, or passing a pack of other racers.
The manufacturers tout both the safety aspects of the glasses and the ability to monitor performance as obvious reasons for their use.
Gimmick or godsend?
For more information check it out at http://4iiii.com/.