[Eug-lug] Nike-iPod Hack Search - Shoes for Industry, ..and make $$$!

[Ben Barrett]

RIght on!  Some folks record these on a PocketPC or Palm... but I there are
clear business reasons why Nike doesn't want their sensor in other brands of
shoes :)  It'd be a great 3rd-party product, of course.  Why an iPod?  Also,
why wired?  If you say jog or bike with a group of folks, one person could
collect wireless data for the group even, including GPS, using class3
bluetooth or similar PAN.
By correlating evelation & velocity with vitals you can make much more sense
of it...
And why just for exercise and training?  Armed forces use similar... child &
elderly care should too!
Let me know if I can get in on this money-making gig ;)

    Ben



On 7/19/06, Harald Sundt <h_sundt at mailhost.efn.org> wrote:
>
> I have a brain-wave but I am not a geek. But bear with me.
>
>
> I have been a CNA and a Nursing Aide for 10 years. Now semi-retired.
>
> I see this new NEXT NEW THING in which by buying nike shoes and a
> Nama iPod one can input pace and such data into iPod.
>
> That does not move me. But examining this Gizom in Eugen, (yes, The
> Nike store), I wondered....
>
> #1.) The sensor-transmitter is a disc you place in a special pouch in
> the bottom of a Nike shoe.... why not just knife a slot in any old
> shoe and stick it in?
>
>
> #2.) This receiver plugs into an iPod Nana,... why not any iPod, like
> the 5th Generation iPod?
>
>
> #3.) I could care less how far skinny people run, as long as they run
> away, BUT, here's my brain wave...
>
>
> ... I have a watch and an arm band yuppy training kit that transmits
>
> Pulse
> Temperature and
> Blood Pressure
>
>
> from the armband thing to the watch thing.
>
> Why not have this really useful information (called vital signs) go
> to the iPod as a recorded data stream?
>
> Nurses and Nursing Aides and people who need to work out for health
> rather than mating display could be a HUGE market for such a system.
> I would use it. It could be a mobile Aerobic Level monitor no matter
> what you are doing.
>
> We could call it,  ta dah:    the IGym!
>
> Hal
>
>
>
>
> --
> This human life,
> like a butterlamp set out in the wind -
> It might last a long time or it might not.
> Not letting ego's hold tighten further,
> May I truly practice the sublime teachings.
>
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