{"id":281,"date":"2007-01-15T13:31:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T13:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diversifiedcuriosities.com\/2007\/01\/15\/old281\/"},"modified":"2017-08-18T18:03:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:03:03","slug":"old281","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2007\/01\/15\/old281\/","title":{"rendered":"Spark Fun Cracks Open a Nike+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julianbleecker\/362764743\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/103\/362764743_ef780d0aab.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"361\" alt=\"Nike+iPod-2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting for someone else to do this. I got one over a month ago, but haven&#8217;t taken the time to hammer it open. I&#8217;m glad more adept reverse engineer types went ahead and did it.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know, this is a brilliantly simple fitness pedometer, of sorts, that outputs its data to an online sort of display of how far you&#8217;ve run. It&#8217;s very game-like, in many ways \u00e2\u20ac\u201d you can compete against friends and see your performance as compared to theirs. Great for informal challenges and such. Sad part is that this is a Nike product that only fits in a Nike shoe. I&#8217;m sure it drives sales and such all..just wishing it was more open in that regard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabel.name\/2006\/08\/multiplayer-game-of-year.html\">Cabel Maxfield Sasser<\/a> has a bit of a write-up on the Nike+ based on his experiences with it. It&#8217;s pretty good, and shows some of the game aspects of the product.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.cabel.name\/images-post\/2006\/08\/nike-4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I appreciate the low-impact style gaming \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it&#8217;s ambient, based on an activity you&#8217;re engaged in anyway, so why not? It&#8217;s not like investing in a $700 PS3 to sit on the sofa all day.<\/p>\n<p>More at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/commerce\/present.php?p=Nike_iPod-Internals\">Spark Fun Electronics site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julianbleecker\/362764743\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/103\/362764743_ef780d0aab.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"361\" alt=\"Nike+iPod-2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting for someone else to do this. I got one over a month ago, but haven&#8217;t taken the time to hammer it open. I&#8217;m glad more adept reverse engineer types went ahead and did it.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know, this is a brilliantly simple fitness pedometer, of sorts, that outputs its data to an online sort of display of how far you&#8217;ve run. It&#8217;s very game-like, in many ways \u00e2\u20ac\u201d you can compete against friends and see your performance as compared to theirs. Great for informal challenges and such. Sad part is that this is a Nike product that only fits in a Nike shoe. I&#8217;m sure it drives sales and such all..just wishing it was more open in that regard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabel.name\/2006\/08\/multiplayer-game-of-year.html\">Cabel Maxfield Sasser<\/a> has a bit of a write-up on the Nike+ based on his experiences with it. It&#8217;s pretty good, and shows some of the game aspects of the product.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.cabel.name\/images-post\/2006\/08\/nike-4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I appreciate the low-impact style gaming \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it&#8217;s ambient, based on an activity you&#8217;re engaged in anyway, so why not? It&#8217;s not like investing in a $700 PS3 to sit on the sofa all day.<\/p>\n<p>More at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/commerce\/present.php?p=Nike_iPod-Internals\">Spark Fun Electronics site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78,84,113,156],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spark Fun Cracks Open a Nike+ - Near Future Laboratory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2007\/01\/15\/old281\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spark Fun Cracks Open a Nike+ - Near Future Laboratory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#039;ve been waiting for someone else to do this. 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