"Hello shoes!"
Posted on 05/23/2006 10:30:11 AM PDT by nickcarraway
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Nike Inc. said on Tuesday that its shoes will now be able to talk to Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod music players about how far anathlete has run with a new wireless system called Nike+iPod.
Shares of Nike rose nearly 4 percent.
Using a Nike+iPod Sports Kit, expected to retail for about $29, consumers will be able to access distance, time, pace and calories burned on the screen of a nano version of the iPod via a sensor inside the shoes that communicates with the digital music player.
The kit will be available in stores within two months and other products will follow.
Nike, the No. 1 global footwear company, said the Nike+ Air Zoom Moire was the first shoe designed to work with the system.
Apple will also include a Nike Sport Music section on its iTunes music store, the companies said.
The partnership was announced in New York during an event attended by Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs, Nike CEO Mark Parker, Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and marathon record-holder Paula Radcliffe.
Shares of Nike rose $3.05 to $81.03 on the New York Stock Exchange. Apple shares rose about 59 cents or about 1 percent to $63.97 on Nasdaq.
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The long, agonizing global wait for this technology is finally over.
At least the manufacturing will keep some six-year old Indian kids ankle deep in rice.
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All this time, I was wondering what was missing in my life, and this was it...
"Hello shoes!"
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thx Nick!
Well said.
Happy Feet! Hap-hap-happy Feet!...........
Anyone have a picture of Maxwell Smart on his shoe phone?
But will it automatically coordinate your music with the speed you're running?
It better not. I've spent months getting my tunes in to match my various speeds.
Those Nike sweatshop stories were pretty much proven to be untrue. However, I still have friends who don't believe me and still boycott Nike.
Just pod it.
The economy must really be in the tank if people are willing to waste money on these talking sneakers... -sarc
I used to love the sneaks but I switched to NB a long time ago as Nike seemed to lose some quality.
Their running shoes just did not hold up for me because...I ran in them. Their shirts and shorts are those super-long things also, which I am told is the style. It looks like the heat will be in style this summer in Texas also. :)
Maybe -- just maybe --
the Muslims are correct and
the West is evil . . .
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