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SPORT, Page 58Giving Your Wallet a Workout
High-tech inventors offer a new crop of elaborate -- and
expensive -- gear
By DAVID E. THIGPEN
For those with anything left to spend after the holiday
excesses, what better causes to spend it on than sport and
fitness? Every year, the American desire to wed high-tech
creativity with recreational activity grows more intense -- and
the resulting gizmos grow more intriguing and elaborate. No
innovation is safe from rethinking: last year's air-filled
running shoe, for example, is now competing against a new
computer-designed number from Puma that needs no laces, straps
or Velcro fasteners. The Puma Disc tightens by means of an
invisible system: a turn of the dial on the shoe's tongue
compresses connecting sleeves around it, making the shoe hug the
particular shape of your foot. But such convenience items are
overshadowed by advances in big-ticket technology. Among other
things, the latest in '90s high-tech gear promises to give you
a full workout in less than five minutes; teach you how to climb
a rock face in the rumpus room; shake, rattle and roll your way
to fitness; and even take the hook out of your golf swing at
home while facing some of the world's most famous golf courses.
In each case, the first instruction for users is simple: carry
a big wallet, make a muscle, then hand over weighty wads of
cash.