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...event. Ticket holders began arriving at Dodger Stadium at 6 a.m. on July 6 to pick up their tickets in a daylong procedure that saw more than 600 cars arrive each hour for credentials. To ensure that only the winners would attend the show, concert officials placed a wristband on the arm of each ticket holder as they arrived. "It's a deterrent against scalping," said an official...
...caloric burn. The Bodybugg is a collection of sensors that measure such things as motion, body heat and sweat 32 times per second, then run the data through an algorithm. The company says the calorie estimate is better than 90% accurate. I also recommend getting the optional digital display wristband ($100), which syncs to the Bodybugg and gives you a read on calories burned so far, how many steps you've taken and other real-time data...
...McCain had been trotting out a black wristband from the mother of a Corporal Matthew Stanley for cheap sympathy points since August of last year. I should have seen it coming: At just the right moment and in a lowered voice, he intoned, “She said, ‘Senator McCain, I want you to do everything—promise me one thing, that you’ll do everything in your power to make sure that my son’s death was not in vain...
...what was so difficult about putting together 15 measly pieces of paper with pictures on them to hand out to the media? Apparently a lot, since you provided us with a wristband that could have just as easily been divvied out at Disney World...
...stop with running shoes? In early October the company will release the Nike Amp Plus, a wristband that serves as a remote control for your nano. And Nike may expand the Plus concepts--measuring performance and building interactive websites around the data--to other sports. So the Nike Plus team might have many laps to go. But it's surely sprinted out of the blocks...