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Golf watch is a caddy on your wrist

There are tons of technologies to improve your golf game--or at least try to--using both software and hardware. (Not to mention the lower-tech ones too.) But most of these aids aren't very discreet, leaving the hapless hacker open to infinite ridicule from the rest of the foursome.

Suunto's G6 golf watch computer, however, provides a covert way to monitor your game. Looking like an regular wristwatch from afar, it runs its own software to analyze why you spend half of every Sunday in the sand: "After each swing, you can check its tempo, rhythm, backswing length … Read more

Suunto Core packed with tech for outdoors

Suunto is perhaps one of the most technically advanced sports watch companies in the marketplace today. They have some serious technology packed into these stylish watches.

The latest is the Suunto Core, which comes in a variety of colors and styles to please the fashion conscious. This new watch comes packed with features that keep you informed out on the ski slopes or trail. It comes with an accurate altimeter, barometer, digital thermometer, weather trend indicator and a digital compass.

The pressure gauge operates in four distinct modes, including an automatic setting that senses your movement or lack thereof, switching … Read more

High-tech watch aimed for outdoorsy women

Wearied by all the useless timepieces flooding the digital watch market, we'd just about given up on the category altogether. But this one is just unusual enough to mention, for its gender-based marketing if not anything else.

The "Lumi," the latest of Suunto's line of high-tech timepieces, is billed as the "first outdoor instrument watch for women." It includes a barometer, altimeter, compass and other REI-worthy features, as well as a menu that can be read in four languages in a sleekly designed casing.

So why is this geared toward the female consumers? "… Read more

Suunto G6 golf watch

The Suunto G6 is a cool gadget for those golfers looking for some help with their swing. PGA tour star Davis Love III is just one of many tour players that have used the G6 to measure things such as tempo,rhythm,backswing length and clubhead speed according to suunto.

The watch uses miniaturized sensors called "accelerometers" to measure various aspects of your golf swing. From takeaway to contact the watch records some 200 plus measurements during your swing.

I have used the G6 and it definitely has some benefits, the clubhead speed numbers are the only ones … Read more