Garmin
How to Use an inReach® Device: Support Resources
08 May 2025
Garmin provides many support resources to help you learn how to operate your inReach satellite communication device before heading into the wilderness.
Top Questions: Triggering an SOS on an inReach® Device
07 May 2025
What happens when you trigger an SOS on a Garmin inReach device? Answers to the most frequently asked questions regarding the SOS process.
Three Ways Your Garmin Smartwatch Can Help You Work Out
07 May 2025
Here’s what you need to know about working out with Garmin, including daily suggested workouts, the Garmin Connect™ app and Garmin Coach.
What’s Your Lactate Threshold and How Can You Train With It?
02 May 2025
If you’re a runner or cyclist, you know how important pace is. Paying attention to your lactate threshold could help.
How Garmin Can Help You Prepare for a Natural Disaster
02 May 2025
No matter where you live or what natural disasters you face, you need to be prepared. Here are the essentials for building an emergency kit.
How Long Will My Garmin Smartwatch Battery Last?
30 Apr 2025
Garmin watch batteries last a long time. Garmin smartwatches should be getting at least about a week of battery life or, at most, unlimited.
Garmin Health Research Glimpse: Exploring Stress Research
29 Apr 2025
How does stress impact the body? Learn how three research projects investigated this and how compatible Garmin watches with stress tracking played a role.
How to Use Garmin Coach Training Plans for Runners
28 Apr 2025
Looking for a marathon training plan? Want to run to build your fitness or hit a PR? You may want to try Garmin Coach.
Behind the Scenes of G3000 PRIME: How Garmin Developed the Most Advanced Integrated Flight Deck Yet
24 Apr 2025
What went into developing G3000 PRIME, the most sophisticated, intuitive and user-friendly flight deck to date? Quite a lot, actually.
Garmin Health Research Glimpse: Supporting Citizen Science
23 Apr 2025
Smartwatch data aggregation and transfer empowers health research studies. Here's how Citizen Science is making an impact in public health.
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
