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

[Mr O]

Funny you mention this. I just read lots about it last night.
The transmitter doesn't have to go in the the shoe. You can use
it with any sneakers. You can velcro the thing to the top of
your shoe. It's an accelerometer which just detects the motion.
The reason it's designed strictly for the Nano is the 5G ipod is
HD based and not for running. Apple doesn't want to have to deal
with warranty issues. At least, that's speculation that I've
read. 

That be all. Bob thinks I'm working.

Mike O.

--- 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.
> 
> Jikdel Yeshe Dorje - The 2nd Dudjom Rinpoche
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