Earlier I made a joke about the iPod compatible shoes, but now I found out what this Nike + iPod stuff is all about. You buy an extra thing for your iPod Nano and it comes with something that attaches to the Nano and a sensor that goes on your shoe. Then it tracks your running or walking, and tells you how far you went, calories burned, pace, and so on. When you get home it uploads the data to your computer and sends it to the Nike web site which makes graphs and does some other things. Sounds pretty interesting. I think this would be more accurate than those pedometers that do the same things since this sensor is actually on you shoe. It sounds like you can also buy special Nike shoes that already have the sensor, which is probably what Nike wants you to do.
Here's Rasmus Lerdorf's review of Nike + iPod, which is where I got this information. Rasmus is one of the original creators of PHP, my favorite web programming language.
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