MP3 Player Tunes Into To Your Pace October 19, 2006

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You know how it is with the silly ‘random selection’ feature on your MP3 player: you're jogging along, going great, feeling ‘amped’ and ‘pumped’ and all of that stuff, when suddenly the sheer thumping drive of Metallica’s Sanitarium is replaced by bloody Dido. That’s it, the exercise high evaporates, your legs turn to lead, your lungs fail you and no amount of fiddling with the MP3 player can get that endorphin high back.

Now meet, PersonalSoundtrack, a small(ish) wearable computer that chooses tracks from your collection based on your pace. For ambling see Burt Bacharach whereas fleeing the police might require a little bit of MegaDeth to get those pins moving. The device was aired at the recent LA, DorkBot gathering and the makers promise an iPod-sized version next. Read more here.-Martin Lynch

Via Tech Digest

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