Adam Engst, Andy Ihnatko and Chuck Joiner discuss the Nike + iPod privacy controversy and the implications that go beyond just geeks being able to track your sneakers. Different perspectives on Apple’s fitness-related product are provided, and the panel provides holiday gift ideas both obvious and not-to-obvious, along with a healthy does of entertaining abuse and commentary.
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Links
Nike + iPod Generates Privacy Concerns
Nike + iPod Sport Kit
Practical Electronics for Inventors (Paul Scherz)
Huckelberry by Ecamm Network
JBL Creature II Powered 3-Piece Multimedia Speaker System (Black)
“Micromemo Voice Record/ipodvid (XtremeMac)
Griffin Technology iKaraoke for iPod (Griffin Technology)
Take Control of Buying A Digital Camera by Laurence Chen
MacVoices #690: Laurence Chen Takes Control of Buying a Digital Camera
Fujifilm FinePix F30 6.3 MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
Canon PowerShot SD800 IS 7.1 Megapixel Digital Camera + 1GB Pro Accessory Kit
Canon PowerShot SD900 10MP Digital Elph Camera + 1 GB Accessory Kit (Canon)
Take Control eBooks
iPod Fully Loaded: If You’ve Got It, You Can iPod It (Andy Ihnatko)
Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner (Take Control eBook)
Good show. However, I would like to strongly disagree with Adam’s assessment of the NIke+iPod sport kit. Being a “serious runner” — that is, a 2-3 marathons per year sort of runner — I will attest to the reliability of the kit to the extent that I have used it. I’ve had it for about 4 months now, and have logged well over 400 miles on it. I have checked its accuracy both with GPS and my car’s odometer, and have found it to perform rather well. Most important, it is consistent — every time I use it, I hit the same landmarks at the same distance. I’m not sure how accurate one need a pedometer to be, but I have had more expensive pieces of running electronics that have performed far worse than Nike+iPod.