Get Kids Outdoors Again With A Smart Trampoline

If you’re considering a new trampoline for your backyard, it is important to consider your child’s safety. According to a study by Spine Universe, most trampoline injuries occur on trampolines purchased for home usage. The classic design of a trampoline simply doesn't protect against common injuries sufficiently. But one father and mechanical engineer decided that trampolines need not be unsafe for children, and set about to design, patent, and manufacture a safe trampoline alternative. Not only does this new trampoline design improve safety, but it is also the world’s first safe trampoline, leveraging digital game technology to get kids outdoors and embracing an active lifestyle.

Safer Design

Springfree Trampoline is an industry-leading manufacturerthat has been dedicated to reimagining the traditional design of trampolines for over 10 years — ensuring greater safety features and removing potentially threatening components and replacing them with jumper-friendly alternatives. More specifically, these trampolines are designed to reduce jumper contact with the 3 most common impact zones of traditional trampolines: the springs, the metal frame and the ground — where a trampoline with net enclosure is always a preferred option.

The design of these new trampolines effectively removes the possibility of pinching and other injuries caused by springs as they are removed and replaced by lighter and stronger composite rods that are located beneath the jumping surface to ensure that kids never come into contact with them. Traditional trampolines are constructed with dangerous metal frames surrounding the jumping area itself, putting jumpers into danger because of the close proximity, but the Springfree design removes this danger by placing the frame beneath the jumping surface. As a further improvement, the net enclosures of traditional trampolines utilized rigid steel poles to hold the nets in place, which could cause additional injury to jumpers that come into contact with them. These new trampolines come equipped with a FlexiNet that uses flexible poles to absorb the energy from the bouncers to reduce injury. Combined with the shock absorbent SoftEdge mat, these trampolines create a 360 degree sphere of fun which kids can enjoy safely.

A Smarter Trampoline

Springfree models also feature the very first integration of smart technology with trampolines. This company has partnered with tgoma in an effort to encourage kids to become more active outside. The tgoma game design promotes active screen time by providing kids and adults alike with a unique outdoor digital game experience offering an effective physical workout. In fact, according to Ezine Articles, a Nasa study found that "rebounding on a trampoline is 68% more effective than jogging". Not only a digital experience, the tgoma system allows users to participate in competitions, track activity, set goals and much more. This integration actually won them a 2016 Digital Design award at the Australian Good Design Awards. 

A Better Choice

With this much safer trampoline design and the fact that tgoma promotes active screen time, parents and children can finally agree on a trampoline that ensures both safety and fun. Additionally, Springfree Trampoline manufactures all of its trampoline parts inside one facility, with no outsourcing of construction, to ensure all of parts are of the highest quality and standard. The best trampoline companies receive the backing of industry awards, such as The Parent Tested Parent Approved Award and The US Family Choice Award. If you’re looking for the next best trampoline for your family, consider one that puts health and safety first.

Fun Things To Do In Summer

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Summer can be very hot here in the U.A.E. If you happen to live in this part of the world then you will understand why summer here is a dreaded season. It is so hot and humid and the temperature reaches 49 to 50 degrees Celcius. That is not a joke! However, we have to make do of what we have and where we are because we cannot let these hot factors dampen our summer spirit.

There are so many ways to enjoy the blistering heat of the sun here and you can do it indoors or even outdoors either very early morning or during the night. Here are fun ways to enjoy summer while battling the heat of the long summer months:

1. Learn how to cook and bake with your family and friends. This is an indoor activity which can be enjoyed by everyone. You don't have to shell out a big amount of money to pay someone to teach you. Research and save some easy-to-make or easy-to-bake recipes and shop for the ingredients.

2. Do some arts and crafts project like scrapbooking and making handmade cards of various occasion. If you have small kids around, let them take part in the project by giving them simple tasks like coloring or pasting shapes or embellishments you will use in your project. Make fun stuff with them and you'll never realize how fun summer can be even while at home.

3. Go for a very early or late afternoon jog or walk around the park. If you have been delaying your weight loss goals for some time, summer is a good way to sweat it out. Be sure to bring water to cool yourself off and a handy towel to wipe away the perspiration.

4. Go to the beach in the morning or late in the afternoon and enjoy the ocean breeze.

5. Window-shop and enjoy the cool airconditioned malls. You save money by not switching your a/c at home. However, make sure you stick to your purpose of only to window-shop and walk around the mall.

6. Learn a new language, musical instrument or a new skill.

7. Have slumber party at home and invite your friends over for a nice movie-marathon night.

8. Clean your house. Re-organize and spruce your habitat.

9. Volunteer to some civic organizations and render your skills and service to help others.

10. Write a blog or start a blog.

11. Make a playlist of your favorite songs and organize them.

12. Make a smoothie! This is one of my fave to do!

13. Go to the museum or art galleries and try soaking in the culture and art.

14. Go on a vacation preferably somewhere cold :)

The list goes on. If you have other ways of enjoying the blistering heat, please feel free to share them here. Have fun this summer! Don't forget to dress lightly and wear protective SPF if you must.

Geocaching - The Modern Hide and Seek

Technology has really evolved much to my amazement. I was going through the internet to search for fun activities to do in the open and I stumbled upon geocaching. At the back of my mind ran thoughts of "what in the world is that?" kind of things. I only use cache word when I refer to the computer cache but cache in the activity world? This must be very interesting.

Well, to the layman like myself, geocaching is defined as an outdoor activity where participants use navigational tools like the GPS to hide and seek waterproof containers with logbook so the finder can sign it afterwards.

It is like a treasure-hunt in a way because you're using navigational tools to search for the cache. This is not confined to the USA only. It is also recognized in other countries and continent including Antarctica.

It seems like a very adventurous kind of activity. If you are interested to do this thing then you can search for geocaching websites. Be prepared to buy garmin chirp as one of the necessity to be able to effectively and successfully go through the elaborate high-tech hide and seek of the 21st century.