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The Moneyball-era Oakland A's improved their on-field performance by using advanced statistics to build the best baseball team they could. In the bedroom, wearable devices like SexFit and Lovely bring a similar approach to less clothed athletics. These genital activity trackers record data points like calories burnt and thrusting force, but British Condoms' i.Con is looking to take things one step further by collecting more nuanced data.
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This cock ring quantifies your sex life
There are fitness trackers for your head, torso, wrist and calves, and then there are fitness trackers for your genitals. Drawing inspiration from Bondara's conceptual SexFit, Lovely is a cock ring wearable device that'll pull triple duty as an erotic toy, priapic activity monitor and sexual performance coach. Simply slide your penis into the hardware, get banging away and, when you're done, a mobile app will tell you your score. Statistics that are recorded by the device include the calories you've burned, the force of your thrusting and even your top speed. The software will even look at your performance and come up with one of 120 new positions that you can try next time out.
Daily App: Lovely helps you find a killer apartment and pay for it, too
Looking for a new apartment and an easy way to pay for it? Then you should look at iPhone app Lovely, which was recently overhauled for iOS 7. Lovely launched its iOS app in 2012 and has steadily improved its mobile platform, adding keyword search and a renter card to make it easy to find and secure a new place to live. Lovely pulls in real estate data from a variety of sources, providing a robust list of rental options to the apartment hunter. Though it didn't provide any listings for my very rural area, the app had over a hundred listings for Portland, Maine, which is the closest city to me. Lovely displays the listing for your area using a map and a zoomed-out view that shows the number of rentals in a particular neighborhood using a blue dot. Tapping on the blue icon will zoom you into that cluster of listings and allow you to view them individually. Each listing is represented by a different color allowing you to tell in a glance whether this is a new listing, an old listing or one that you have viewed or favorited. Each individual listing is chock full of details, including images of the property, the price, location, aunties and a description. A map allows you to get directions to the property and handy buttons for email and phone allows your to contact the landlord in just a few taps. You also can sign up for a Lovely account and "Favorite" a listing to save it for later. Other useful features in the app include alerts that notify you when a new apartment meeting your criteria hits the market and a renters card that contains all your pertinent renter information, like income, credit score and contact info. This renter card is an easy way for you to send your information to a prospective landlord so you can get first dibs on a new listing. The latest version of the app adds a new "Pay Rent" feature that lets you setup automatic payments for your monthly rent. To enable payments, you must sign up for the service with your payment account information and then contact your landlord so they can enter their deposit account information. Once both accounts are added to the service, the payments will be sent on time every month with no effort on your part. Lovely is available for iOS for free. It is compatible with the iPhone and requires iOS 7. There are no ads or in-app purchases.
Daily iPhone App: Lovely is real estate searching made easier
I've been apartment hunting lately (I want a little bigger place, with the option to finally get myself a dog), and here in LA, it's not an easy thing to do. Craigslist is usually the listings tool of choice, but it's so gummed with spam and vague listings here that it can be hard, especially when (like me) you're trying to be a little picky. And while there are a few subscription-based services around, I'm not really interested in paying a subscription to people who should be lusting after me and my perfect credit rating and dependable rent checks anyway. I hadn't really considered using my iPhone in the search, but when a friend linked me an apartment listed on Lovely, I figured the app would probably be worth a shot. And I'm glad I gave it one: Lovely is, so far, the most useful free tool I've come across. There's a full web interface, but the app is also very simple and intuitive -- it's quick, responsive and very clear. I particularly like the way pictures and maps are implemented; on Craigslist, the maps link is essentially an afterthought, but on Lovely, that information is put front and center, and loads up fast and clean, even on my iPhone's 4G while out and about. I am not quite sure how the Lovely listings are moderated (I know some of them do come from Craigslist, and you can filter in the app for listings with or without pictures, but it's not clear just which listings make it through or not, or exactly what all of their sources are). However it all works, though, I've found quite a few great places on the few days I've been watching the app, and I'm hoping that sooner or later here I'll find the place I'm looking for. Perhaps I shouldn't recommend an app like this until I've actually found a place, but Lovely (available on the App Store now) is worth considering no matter what part of the relocation stage you happen to be in. I should also say that I'm looking in Los Angeles, where the community is relatively tech-savvy and the listings are plentiful, so if you're in a less populated or less tech-friendly area, Lovely might not work so well for you. And finally, there's no iPad interface, unfortunately, though I have to presume that's in the works. If you're setting out on an apartment search, or haven't found a good tool yet, give Lovely a shot for sure.
