Last year, it added a treadmill to its list of livestream devices, along with a more rugged version of its bike targeted at gyms and hotels.
"If anything, their performance should improve with the strategy we are using," Ventura, who looks like a handsome, rugged version of the Count from Sesame Street, told Australian TV.
At CES, ODG pulled back the curtain on a couple of its next-generation flagship products, the R-8 and R-9, but because of the existing supply chain, the company tells me it just made a lot more sense to get the rugged version of the R-7 sooner rather than to wait until production on the enterprise-focused R-9 could be ramped-up.
So what do Brian and I think of the waterproof Galaxy S4? Personally, I find the design language to be a bit loud, and it's unclear why the rugged version of the phone can't come in the same standard black and white as opposed to grey, blue and orange.
The Turner prize-winning artist has turned his sights on the survivalist and his exceptionally rugged version of masculinity, arguing that it isn't fit for the 21st century.
To make this all the sweeter, the rugged version of the S7 family actually retains all of the positive traits.
Design-wise, there's a lot to appreciate about the body's simplicity: two dials for controlling shutter speed and aperture, a recording button and the shutter/power/flash switch trio, which I haven't seen with the X-U (the rugged version of this) or the pro-level SL.
Manufacturers regularly highlight the long zoom and rugged versions of their devices, as these are areas where consumers feel they need more than what's available to them on the smartphone devices they carry around every day.
and few people seemed to care whether their sport utilities were built on the underpinnings of a truck or a car, Subaru came up with a rugged-looking version of its Legacy.
But the firm said that if the trial was a success it intended to offer coach firms a "less rugged" version that would be about a quarter of the cost.
