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- SPORT, Page 58Giving Your Wallet a Workout
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- High-tech inventors offer a new crop of elaborate -- and
- expensive -- gear
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- By DAVID E. THIGPEN
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- 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.
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