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the SportBand into the USB port. The
Web page opens automatically. After
the SportBand charges for two hours
(long enough to last for 14 hours of use),
plug the SportBand into itself, insert
a sensor into your shoes (before
you don them, of course), hold the
SportBand’s button down for three
seconds and start jogging.
I decide to test the product with
the most mundane of tasks, by literally
“running” errands. I need to pick up a
package at the Fed Ex store, roughly
1.5 miles from my apartment.
The short jog is a perfect test for the
product’s capabilities. Starting out,
the Sport Band takes some getting
used to. Having the detailed information
just a glance away is both inspiring and
frightening. Because I knew my exact
speed at all times, the competitive side
of me wanted to keep beating myself,
covering each block faster than the
previous one. Battling this information
overload was difficult at first, but I soon
settled into a pace that was endurable
for both my head and my lungs.
some shoes, I decided to go ahead and
I covered the 1.36 miles in 9
The latest incantation
take the plunge, or more aptly, first step.
minutes and 48 seconds, not bad for
The Internet component of the
rush hour traffic in Brooklyn, NY. Fed
of the Nike+ system is
Nike+ prides itself on usability -
Ex, of course, didn’t have my package,
instruction manuals are simple graphics
although after a series of phone calls,
called the “SportBand,”
with few words - and the system is
the truck driver agreed to deliver it to
intuitive. Any difficulties I had were as a
my apartment in 15 minutes. I raced
a wristband that
result of my impatience. The procedures
back home – timed by the SportBand
are actually pretty simple. To get
– and beat him by a healthy margin.
communicates with
started, simply log on to Nikeplus.
Returning home, I plugged my
com/downloads, download some
SportBand into the computer and the
a runner’s shoes
software, and plug detachable part of
Nike+ site loaded. Uploading my latest
and offers similar
information as the
original iPod version.
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