Touchscreen T-Shirts Only A Few Years Away. Under Armour is transitioning towards performance tracking, with their sights set on fabrics that display stats themselves. Every day, technology becomes more ingrained in our lives. Most people have to keep their smart phones within arms reach. But what if instead of having your technology an arm’s length away, it was on your arm? Imagine: clothing with touchscreen capabilities built right into the fabric. A truly ‘wearable’ technology. Under Armour is working on it as we speak, but they’re not quite there – yet. Earlier this week, Under Armour officially unveiled Armour39: their next generation of wearable technology. The Armour39 system, in its attempt to challenge the Nike FuelBand and other performance monitors, will track basic performance measurements like speed, intensity, heart rate, calories burned, a log of past performances, and other athletic metrics.
Unfortunately, the Armour39 performance monitor does not contain a GPS element for proper run tracking. Armour39 Under Armour. 7 Reasons Why Wearables Are Poised To Disrupt Our Lives. If you don’t think the Nike+ Fuelband is ridiculously important, then you’re missing the big picture. In the next five to 10 years, wearable technology—the sensor-based appcessories that use our phones as brains and connections to the cloud—has the potential to change our lives every bit as much as having the world’s information in our pockets.
Why? Because with wearables, we’ll have something even more important: our body’s information in our pockets. Service design specialists at Fjord recently had a "kitchen" panel and brainstorming event, and we can learn a lot from the melting pot prognostications of developers, designers, and analysts. Feel free to watch the short clip above. Here are the highlights we distilled from the conversations, or the seven reasons why wearables are poised to disrupt our lives: The smartphone’s novelty has worn off, and people want new toys. See more here. Nike CEO Mark Parker On His Company's Digital Future: Body-Controlled Music, Color-Coded Heart Rates.
When Nike CEO Mark Parker is about to reveal something ahead of the company's plan, his PR teams will try to stop him. Parker is sitting in his office on Nike's Beaverton, Oregon, campus—a room filled with endless oddities and knick-knacks—discussing Nike's digital future. "The digital and physical worlds are starting to come together more seamlessly—it's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's coming. I can't get into all the details here, but just imagine...
" He stops abruptly when someone on his PR team shoots him a look. "Oh, see this is where [my handlers] give me the stink-eye," Parker says, smiling. If Parker is tiptoeing through this chat, it's in part because Nike is undergoing a digital revolution, having launched its innovative Nike+ platform, the technology giving the company life on iPhones and Xboxes, as well as hardware products such as FuelBand, the slick electronic wristband that tracks your activity. [Photo by Art Streiber] Nike Tech Accelerator Aims To Fuel Health, Fitness Startups.
Nike+ ouvre ses API | FrenchFuel. Salut à tous, vous le savez Nike a récemment annoncé le lancement d’un programme de développement pour les startups innovantes intitulé Nike+ Accelerator. La date limite pour envoyer les dossiers de candidature est d’ailleurs très proche… Bref ce n’est pas l’objet de cet article. Je vous écris aujourd’hui cet article car Nike+ va bientôt ouvrir ses API aux développeurs ! 😀 Oui oui, c’est une excellente nouvelle pour l’application Nike+ Running et pour le Nike+ FuelBand ! Alors qu’est-ce que cela représente concrètement ? Pour faire simple, API signifie Application Programming Interface ou Interface de Programmation en Français. Et lorsque Nike annonce l’ouverture de son ou ses APIs, cela veut dire que Nike+ donne la possibilité aux développeurs d’accéder aux données d’activités des applications Nike+ Running et Nike+ FuelBand.
Les développeurs auront accès aux données suivantes : Pour Nike+ Running : – Distance – Pace – GPS Location Data.