Device Convergence for the Exercising Geek
This is only in the proof-of-concept stage, but Actively Mobile (via We Make Money…) wants you to leave your MP3 player, cell phone and pedometer at home:
Actively Mobile is a small disc worn on the wrist, arm or hip – wherever is most comfortable – of those engaged in physical exercise. Incorporating the functionality only available currently by carrying several devices, it offers a range of facilities, and accesses a variety of services, of particular use to runners: a heart-rate monitor, a GPS locator, and time and speed tracking. To aid motivation it also allows two or more people, running together but in different places, to share conversation and their current performance (to hear each other’s pace for example).
Right, because gasping out a conversation with my running buddy is really going to motivate me to climb out of ye olde easychair. But I jest–this definitely sounds like a desirable device for the frenetic set.
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