Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Bowflex wants to make your dumbbells smart — CES 2016”.
Hey this is Jameson Cox, I’m here with the verge at CES 2016. I’Ve been here for a couple of days now, one thing about the show: it’s really tough to get a good workout in thankfully I’m here with Bowflex and they’ve got the Select tech, SC, 560 dumbbells and yeah. I’M gon na try to get my pump on with these, so the st 5 60s are the world’s first smart dumbbell, but they’re actually building on adjustable dumbbell technology that Bowflex has had on the market for a while. Now there are a couple differences with this model: they’re square instead of round they’re a little smaller than they were before, and you adjust them in a slightly different way, but obviously the biggest difference is the inclusion of this smart tech. That’S what takes these dumbbells to a whole other level, so, in terms of this smart tech, the big thing is that there are accelerometers included in the dumbbells and these accelerometers, which are like anything you find in a standard, wrist, wearable contract.
The number of reps that you’re doing the total weight that you’re lifting and the calories that you’re burning. So it’s a good way to keep track of exactly how much work you’re doing in your workout. One cool thing about them is that when you’re doing a new exercise, they will take the first motion. First, complete motion that you perform and that’ll be enough to give it a pattern and then for the rest of your set. If you have to perform the same motion or else it won’t register you’ll hear a beep, that’s how you know you’ve done it just like you did it the first time and then within the app itself there are instructional videos and built-in workout programs. So if you get a set of these and for some reason, you’re not really sure what kind of workout you want to do, I feel like these are kind of an enthusiast product. So that’s probably not likely, but just in case it does come with built-in workouts and instructional videos. So it’ll show you exactly what kind of exercises you can do so in terms of price for the SC 560, if you can get the base set for $ 4.99.
If you want to add this stand, that’s another 149 and then you can add extra weight for another 249 in terms of availability. It’S going to be on the market in a couple weeks, so keep an eye out for that. If you want a new game, a fide way to work out, that’s about it thanks for tuning in, if you want to see more from CES, be sure to subscribe to the verge on YouTube and check out the verge com. .