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Apple working on iPhone/iPod Ski/Snowboard Nike+ App

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wrenegade
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Looks pretty interesting. Not sure how it would work in real life application though.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/06/11/apple_developing_activity_monitor_for_skiers_snowboarders_bikers.html
Jun 11 2009 1:42PM
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I_Am_Mod
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very nice, but this is one of those examples where big corporations create new needs that arent really all that necessary....
Jun 11 2009 1:46PM
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h_bar
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i didnt care to read this, but i guess its gonna go crazy when i am hitting 60++ foot kickers
Jun 11 2009 1:54PM
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jsaya_SagStraps
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I don't really care to know how many seconds I've been in the air for..

Although I could see some gaper-types having an interest in it.
Jun 11 2009 2:04PM
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e.will
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i love catching "phat air" and "grabbing some sky"

fucking idiots.
Jun 11 2009 2:11PM
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artfullydodged
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"a typical snowboarding person might regularly exclaim after a jump that she 'caught' some 'big sky,' 'big air' or 'phat air' without ever quantitatively knowing how much time really elapsed in the air."

definately for gapers
Jun 11 2009 2:13PM
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ski@jaypeak2
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"Meanwhile, interest in the loft motion is less apparent, though it is known that certain enthusiastic skiers regularly exclaim "let's catch some air" and other assorted remarks when referring to the amount and altitude of the lofting motion."
Jun 11 2009 2:13PM
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selkirks
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This is just another of their patent applications that never comes into being. Like others have said, I question how practical something like that would be -- it seems like just a novelty. In my opinion it would only be useful if it had a vertical tracker.
Jun 11 2009 2:13PM
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COskier
Posts: 1066 - Karma: 131
Some guy gave a device just like this to my friends and me a few years back, hoping we would spread the word. It told you how much time had elapsed while you were in the air. It was sort of funny to use for about a day but then we got bored. Plus it was kind of heavy, would have hurt to fall on, and was supposedly like 400 dollars to buy. It wasn't worth it. Still, if this were an app for the iphone it would be pretty cool, it already has an accelometer after all.
Jun 11 2009 2:27PM
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g-man
Posts: 1955 - Karma: 301
assuming you would need a transmitter in your ski boot, I would for sure break that on the first day of use.
Jun 11 2009 5:06PM
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deleted5
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I would like it if it could know how long what grab and how off axis I was, but just air no.
Jun 11 2009 5:11PM
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COskier
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Why would you need a transmitter in your ski boot? You could just carry it in your pocket. It just needs to be a device that recognizes when you are accelerating at -9.8 m/s and your all good.
Jun 12 2009 4:16AM
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Armanzoid
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To be honest, wouldn't be a horrible way to speed check jumps. Probably save a lot of broken bones.
Jun 12 2009 10:26AM
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Melvs
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Really wouldn't be all that hard to do with just the accelerometer in the iPhone already.  Just have it on before you hit a jump.  The landing would be easy as hell to determine and I can't imagine that the takeoff would be overly difficult to figure out either.
Jun 12 2009 10:31AM
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Hack.The.Pow.
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This just looks like more of a hassle then its really worth.....
Jun 12 2009 10:37AM
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smuggs
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just record your air and count the frames, most cameras shoot around 30 per second so its simpe to find your air time, that is if you really even need to know. which i dont. what a retarded invention. it will not help the progression of anything.
Jun 12 2009 2:18PM
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