“The recent Apple and Nike announcement was a bolt from the blue- but it appears Apple has been working on similar ideas for a long time – perhaps even before teaming up with Nike. They suggest in this patent application embedding an accelerometer into an iPod to gauge a runners foot falls and then to sync the music to the tempo of running. The Pat App suggests either changing the tempo of the song or the iPod selecting songs which match the tempo (the host computer would analyse songs and add a tempo tag to each),” Hrmpf.com reports. “One aspect of the patent is to use your running speed to set the music tempo- if you’re running slowly it’ll play slower music- running faster- faster tempo music. Presumably all this might work with the Nike+iPod product soon to be released.”
More info and patent application sketches here.
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