Intelligent water bottle
$29.95; hydracoach.com
While it’s been debated exactly how much water you should drink each day, chances are you aren’t getting enough of it. With the HydraCoach bottle, you won’t have any excuses for not giving those recommended 64 ounces your best shot. It calculates your daily personal hydration needs based on your weight, tracks each sip you take and motivates you by displaying the percentage you’ve imbibed so far.
RunAway
$8.99; switcheasy.com
Desperate to use the Nike + iPod Sports Kit, but feel shut out because you prefer to run in New Balances? Good news. The weatherproof RunAway adapter locks onto the laces of any sneaker and secures the wireless sensor in place, so you get readings that are as accurate as they’d be if the sensor was imbedded in a Nike + shoe. Best of all, when you’re not using the adapter, it also stores the wireless receiver so it doesn’t get lost.
Animal scale
$50; charlesandmarie.com
It isn’t your actual weight that matters; it’s your BMI. Here’s your chance to end your fixation on the numbers – this scale equates your weight with that of farm animals. (There’s also a celebrity one -King Kong or Hulk Hogan, anyone?) If nothing else, it’ll make you chuckle instead of cry over that piddly extra pound you’ve gained.
TwiLight Ultra Blue Light Therapy Sleep System
$89.95; verilux.com
Studies show that going to bed early and getting a full night of sleep helps you stay trim. The technology used in this device is based on NASA’s research into regulating astronauts’ natural circadian rhythms while they’re in space. Leave the soothing blue light – approximating moonlight – on for 30 minutes before bedtime and it’s supposed to help reset your internal clock, leaving you with a healthy and normal sleep pattern.
BlueMax Sunrise System Model 320
$169; fullspectrumsolutions.com If waking up – without hitting snooze five times – is your problem, a dawn-simulating alarm clock might be the solution. Using LED bulbs to mimic a natural sunrise, it will wake you up naturally instead of jarring you awake the way a standard alarm does (although it has one of those, too). As an added bonus, it can be used as a night light or for light therapy if you’re suffering from seasonal affective disorder.
The Accelerometer
$49.95; hammacher.com
Pedometers are all fine and dandy, but they only measure the walking you’ve done. The Accelerometer, on the other hand, keeps track of all your movements, including any motions you’ve made while cleaning your apartment or doing office work. Similar to NASA technology (what isn’t these days?) used to monitor astronauts in space, the gadget’s motion sensor measures the frequency, duration and intensity of your activity, and calculates the calories you’ve burned while doing it.