New & Notable: Latest from Brooklinen, Cole Haan and Garmin
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Cole Haan — founded in 1928 and well-known for its men’s and women’s shoes — is launching the Generation ZEROGRAND II, which the company says is its first sustainable shoe. The ZEROGRAND II’s upper is made from vegan microfiber suede that’s 21-percent-made from recycled material and felt that’s 85-percent-made from recycled plastic bottles, according to the company. Cole Haan also says that the outsole is made from the company’s FlowerFoam material, which contains at least 25 percent dandelion rubber.
Garmin first broke through our collective consciousness with its ever-popular car GPS and is well known for its popular GPS smart watches — which we’ve featured in our coverage of fitness trackers and smart watches. Recently, the company announced the Garmin Instinct 2: This GPS Smartwatch, positively reviewed by GearJunkie and TechRadar, comes in several different styles: a Standard edition, Camo-patterned edition, Surf edition with tide data and a dezl edition for truckers. Notably, you can also purchase the watch with solar lenses that store power and charge your watch using sunlight. It can detect physiological measurements like heart rate, sleep time, VO2 max, blood oxygen saturation, as well as other specialized metrics like stress level, energy level and your fitness age, Garmin says.
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