Tune your run with iPod nano and Nike sneakers
Ivan Đurđevac in categories: Miscellaneous, Mp3 Players on Monday, May 29th, 2006
Tune your run! Everybody like to enjoying in music while exercise. Apple in cooperation with Nike has announced the Nike+iPod Sports Kit. Some people think this could get the geek out of the bedroom, but i don’t agree. I think this product is for people who like sport and music, not for geeks.
The system uses a sensor which fits into the insole to communicate with receiver witch is inserted into iPod’s nano dock connector. Then sensor, tracks data like time, distance, pace and calories and transmit it to iPod witch display it on the screen.
The iTunes store will be updated with ‘Nike Sport Music’ section with music for workout, podcasts with advices from Lance Armstrong, Paula Radcliffe and more.
New iPod nano firmware will have an optional ‘Nike+iPod’ menu and only one trainer will be available. This fancy kit comes in July. The Sensor will costing just 12$ and iPod receiver around 100$. I think, that Apple partnership with Nike is positive move, and iPod nano users will have benefit from it. And just like the Apple said:
You don’t just take iPod nano on your run. You let it take you. Music is your motivation. But what if you want to go further? Thanks to a unique partnership between NIKE and Apple, your iPod nano becomes your coach. Your personal trainer. Your favorite workout companion. Introducing Nike+iPod.
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May 29th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
I reckon that this is a neat way of adding a pedometer function to the iPod. If only one can use the sensor with other shoes such as walking boots for example. There are those of us who want to go on long walks across the countryside or through suburbia for example and want to stuff an iPod with tunes to entertain us over the long walk. Here, the iPod also ends up as a pedometer which can also become handy with navigation.
Also, if someone else does this kind of thing with other personal electronics like cellpbones or other MP3 players, you could eliminate the need for a separate pedometer when doing that long distance walk.
If this was to be revised or extended, an electronic compass could be built in to the iPod-attached module and then you have software which can put up a compass display on the iPod’s LCD. Other extensions could include mapping software which works to a standard map, and support for a GPS module, thus making devices like the iPod become “Swiss Army knives” for long-distance walkers.
With regards,
Simon Mackay
March 7th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
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