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Ipod Ready Nike Shoes. A New Type of Sport Kit

by Heather McLaughlin

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Yes, you heard it right.

Nike and Ipod are teaming up to offer the first shoe designed to work with an IPod that not only offers music, but gives the runner or walker wearing it important information about their workout including their distance, the number of calories burned, and their speed.

“This is the first result,” Parker said of the new relationship at the
May 23rd announcement, “and Nike+iPod will change the way people run. Nike+iPod creates a better running experience. We see many more such Nike+innovations in the future.”

The Nike+iPod Sport Kit allows Nike+ ready footwear to communicate with the Apple iPod(R) nano through a sensor in the Nike+ footwear and a receiver plugged into the nano. The Nike+iPod Sport Kit allows the runner to receive audible updates on speed, distance and calories burned upon request throughout the run.

All components of the Sport Kit are sold separately. The Kit itself will retail for around $30.00, and Nike will offer 6 different models of running shoes by the end of July. Currently their Nike Air Zoom Moire+ and the Nike Air Zoom Plus+ are available.

This high tech shoe has minimum system requirements, to run these shoes (no pun intended) you’ll need the following:

iPod nano with Mac(R) with a USB 2.0 and Mac OS(R) X version 10.3.9 or later and iTunes
6.0.5;.
Windows PC with a USB 2.0 port and Windows 2000, XP Home or Professional (SP2) and iTunes 6.0.5.

..and of course, the shoes!

Resource: Nike Plus

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