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Gizmodo
a day ago
- Health
- Gizmodo
Garmin Is Going Nuts with the Vivoactive 5, Now at a New All-Time Low on Amazon for No Reason
Not everyone needs the new Garmin Fenix 8 at more than $1,000 to track its sporting progress. In fact, for 99% of us, the Garmin Vivoactive 5 is more than adequate. The watch is the perfect middle ground and delivers an excellent balance of performance, features and cost. No surprise, it's also a best-seller for those looking for a great fitness companion. Right now, you can purchase the Garmin Vivoactive 5 on Amazon for just $189, a staggering 37% off of its regular $299 price. This is the lowest price ever offered on this model, beating even past holiday discounts. If you're looking to upgrade or buy your very first fitness smartwatch, there's never been a better time to do so. See at Amazon The Vivoactive 5 brings together advanced health tracking and smart features in a lightweight and very elegant design. At the heart of the watch is its vibrant AMOLED display which delivers bright colors and sharp contrasts even under direct sunlight. With a battery life of up to 11 days in smartwatch mode, you'll spend less time charging and more time focused on training, recovery and day-to-day activities. What's more, the great Body Battery energy tracking offers you is a definite idea of how ready your body is by measuring the extent to which you are loaded or depleted. It takes into account your nap time, sleep quality, stress level and previous activity to customize information during your day. It's a powerful way to find out how your daily decisions are affecting your body and how to optimize your training or rest accordingly. If you want in-depth sleep tracking, the Vivoactive 5 includes advanced sleep analysis, and provides a sleep score and offering highly personalized sleep guidance. You'll get realistic, actionable guidance for improving your rest based on real facts, like your heart rate variability status. That is to say that your future health decisions are made with more than conjecture. Garmin creates watches that promote movement and the Vivoactive 5 is no different with over 30 integrated indoor and GPS sport apps. From running and cycling to HIIT, swimming, and even golf, there's a mode for all forms of movement. Wheelchair users were not left behind: a specific wheelchair mode monitors pushes rather than steps and includes special workouts and challenges. Automatic nap detection tracks naps and indicates how power naps influence your total energy, providing more information to assist in refining your routine. Health and wellness tracking extends far beyond the fundamentals as well. The Vivoactive 5 monitors your heart rate through your wrist, offers a daily morning report, estimates your fitness age and does menstrual and pregnancy tracking as well as stress tracking and meditation routines. If you're interested in pushing your fitness limits, the watch has high-end training features. The workout benefit feature tells you how each muscle-burning session will impact your body, and the recovery time guidance tells you how long you'll have to rest before you head out for your next session. You have the option to select preloaded workouts that vary from cardio, yoga, strength, HIIT, and Pilates, create your own using the Garmin Connect smartphone app. This deal is hard to pass up, so look for getting yours at this all-time low price. See at Amazon
Phone Arena
2 days ago
- Business
- Phone Arena
At $116 off, the Garmin Forerunner 255 Music is a must-have for shoppers with an active lifestyle
Finding a feature-packed Garmin multisport watch at a reasonable price isn't always easy. After all, Garmin's smartwatches are known for being loaded with features, and that often comes with hefty price tags. Fortunately, retailers like Amazon do offer discounts on Garmin's wearables from time to time, allowing bargain hunters to upgrade their wrist game at a lower price. One of the smartwatches that enjoys Amazon's love in terms of generous markdowns is the Forerunner 255 Music, which—surprise, surprise—is selling for 29% off right now. $116 off (29%) Amazon is currently selling the 46mm Garmin Forerunner 255 Music in Black for just under $285, thanks to a generous $116 discount. The watch is packed with features and offers an impressive battery life of up to 14 days. Save while the offer lasts! Buy at Amazon Thanks to this discount, you can grab a unit for just under $285, which is a pretty decent deal considering the timepiece's usual price is about $400. That means you'll save around $116 if you don't hesitate and take advantage of the offer while it's still up for the offer comes from a third-party seller who's also taking care of the shipping. However, you'll still have 30 days to ask for a refund if needed, so there is nothing to worry about. The Garmin Forerunner 255 Music packs a lot of value at its current price on Amazon. Designed for runners, it's loaded with health-tracking features, including monitoring your body's energy reserves, Garmin Coach for tailored workouts, and Garmin Sleep Coach, which tracks your sleep and offers advice on how to improve it. This is the Music edition, which means it lets you download up to 500 songs from Spotify and Amazon Music, so you can listen to your favorite tunes wherever your run takes you. Although it doesn't have a touchscreen, which can make navigating menus a bit trickier, it makes up for that with an impressive battery life of up to 14 days in smartwatch mode on a single charge. This leaves fancy watches like the Galaxy Watch 7 and Apple Watch Series 10 in the dust—at least in this regard. So, yeah! The Garmin Forerunner 255 Music is definitely a great pick, whether you're into running or just need a feature-rich smartwatch with excellent battery life. So, don't waste any more time and get one for less now!
Tom's Guide
2 days ago
- Tom's Guide
Garmin fans, I have good news — we could be about to get 2 new smartwatches very soon
Garmin could be about to announce two brand new fitness-focused smartwatches, according to the latest murmurings across the internet. Specifically, an official tease from the company suggests a new Forerunner model while an unofficial leak could signal a new Venu. Let's start with the official news first. According to an official glimpse from Garmin shared on Chinese social media, we could be looking at a new Forerunner model. The outline of a very Forerunner-esque watch can be seen alongside a date: July 22. Which is tomorrow. According to fitness tipster the5krunner, this could mean one of a few things. Either it's a new China-only model (unlikely) or a region-specific version of a Forerunner that Garmin already makes. Or, failing that, it could of course be a brand new model that we'll get first eyes on this week. Alongside the image outline, the tease has a "1XXX" number alongside it. If that's the product number, it's a strange one — Garmin usually favors a three digit numbering schema. Alternatively, it's the price of the device in yuan. Which, even if it's 1999 yuan ($278 / £207), would make it an affordable Forerunner compared to the other models. Either way, we won't have long to wait to find out if there is a new model coming and whether or not it'll shape up alongside the best Garmin watches already out there. The latest Forerunner is our new top pick for the best Garmin watch. In our Garmin Forerunner 265 review, we called it "a huge improvement" over the previous model. This iteration of the watch brings a gorgeous AMOLED display with a higher resolution, plus Garmin's Training Readiness Score feature. You also get accurate GPS and lots of advanced training metrics at a glance. It's been a minute since Garmin released its last Venu watch, the Garmin Venu 3 back in 2023. So it makes sense the brand would be thinking about a follow-up and according to a report from Notebookcheck, we've just seen our first mention of it. A revised Japanese user manual for the Venu 3, published earlier this month, contains a reference to the Venu 4 when discussing the brand's paid Golf Membership service. The reference states: "In addition, Venu 4 device users can subscribe to Garmin Golf Membership to use course layouts (2nd generation) and PlaysLike distances on the device, and hazard/layup information can be overlaid on the map." Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Which, of course, tells us nothing about the specs or the timeline of the device, other than it likely will exist and probably be useful on the golf course. The Venu 3 was released in August on 2023, so if Garmin wants to keep to the same release cadence, then maybe we'll get more word about the Venu 4 in the coming weeks and possibly a reveal next month. Follow Tom's Guide on Google News to get our up-to-date news, how-tos, and reviews in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button.
Sky News AU
2 days ago
- General
- Sky News AU
Locals stunned after crocodile reportedly sighted along a spit in Noosa, Queensland, sparking official investigation
Claims of a rare crocodile sighting have become the talk of the town in a well-known Sunshine Coast community. Local Ross Buckley took to a Noosa Facebook community page on Sunday to say he spotted a crocodile "a few metres off the shoreline" at the Noosa Spit in south east Queensland during a 6.30am walk that morning, adding its length was about 3.5m. He said the sighting had scared him away from walking in the same area in the mornings. "At first I thought it was a bit of driftwood, but then it moved. I've lived here over 30 years and never seen anything like it, I've heard a few locals say they have seen one in the same neck of the woods, although I didn't think much of it," Mr Buckley posted. "I quickly put the dog on the lead and kept my distance. Emergency services have been alerted and are apparently on a search for it now. Just wanted to give a heads up to all the locals who walk their dogs here early and usually swim around this area - be careful and stay safe. Not sure what's going on with wildlife lately but this gave me a real fright. Definitely won't be back here for my morning walk." The sighting has shocked locals, who are not used to seeing crocodiles so far south in Queensland, especially during the middle of winter. Hours later in the day, another man, fisherman James Graham, said he had also spotted what appeared to be a crocodile on the Garmin fish finder on his boat. He told The Courier Mail he was confident it was the large reptile. '(We) regularly go a few hundred kilometres north into croc waters, and use the Garmin fish finder to look around, and you'll see an old car or a boot or something on the bottom, and then you'll spot a croc,' he said. 'But down here in Noosa, to see exactly what we see many kilometres further north. That just says it's a croc to me, tell me that's not a croc. 'We looked at it and thought 'bloody hell, there's a croc' on my screen." Shortly after the claims emerged, Cairns-based group Community Representation of Crocodiles told locals to be "alert" but not "alarmed". It said while the sightings are unconfirmed, crocodiles appearing in southern waters were "actually not uncommon". "They are vagrants or strays, and generally stay for a short amount of time and then head back north: they are not populating southern waters as research shows their populations stabilising and there is no evidence to support them breeding further south than Rockhampton due to water temp," it said on social media. The Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation is investigating the reported sightings.
7NEWS
2 days ago
- General
- 7NEWS
Investigations underway after multiple sightings of a crocodile in Noosa, Queensland
A 3.5 metre crocodile has been spotted at popular swimming spot Noosa Spit, with multiple sightings at the weekend. A number of people took to social media to tell residents about the sighting. The Department of Environment said it was taking the matter seriously and investigating the sightings. Fisherman James Graham and pal Kai Tapley spotted the crocodile in one of Sunshine Coast's busiest waterways, with crocodiles rarely seen so far south in Queensland. The Boyne River near Gladstone, some 300km to the north, is commonly considered the southern boundary of typical crocodile habitat. Graham and Tapley appeared on Sunrise on Monday, speaking about their unexpected sighting. '(We were) fishing and looking at the sonar ... I saw the shape come through. I had a look at it again. I said, 'that doesn't look right.' I had a closer look,' Tapley said. Graham said he knew Tapley was correct after he spotted the croc. 'The moment you see it, you know it's a croc,' Graham said. 'So, then you go 'that doesn't make sense, but what else could it be? It's not a turtle. It's not a dolphin. It's not a mermaid. It's a croc'. 'So, of course, you go 'how is that possible?' But that's what we saw.' Graham explained the day started with a rumour a resident had spotted a crocodile. However, Graham didn't believe him. '(I thought) in the middle of winter, as far south as Noosa, that's just ridiculous,' Graham said. 'Maybe they let some Victorian up here again and he spotted a stick floating down the river. 'But then I thought, 'go fishing. Get out on the water. See what's about. 'And when Kai pointed that out on the Garmin fish finder, I knew straight away, that's a croc!' Tapley explained residents and tourists often went stand-up paddleboarding on the river or used kayaks. 'For it to be in that shallow water is quite scary, in a way,' he said. Graham said he hopes the crocodile leaves the area as fishing had become suddenly 'very quiet'. 'We were looking at each other going 'What's with today? There's no fish around,' then the crocodile kinda comes through. It sort of explained it. 'I'm keen to get back fishing again.' Crocodile investigation underway The Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation confirmed an investigation is underway. 'We are aware of social media reports regarding a reported crocodile sighting today at the Noosa Spit and are investigating the matter further,' it said. 'The Boyne River near Gladstone, some 300km to the north, is commonly considered the southern boundary of typical crocodile habitat. 'Crocodile sightings should be reported by using the QWildlife app, completing a crocodile sighting report on the DETSI website, or by calling 1300 130 372. We investigate every crocodile sighting report we receive.'
