By Duncan Bell
How about this for a plethora of innovative features? The Parrot Zik Sport, designed by Philippe Starck, has an unusual, slightly alien shape that gives great grip and noise cancelling, but with a “Street Mode” option that allows ambient sound through (thereby reducing your chance of being run over by an unheard bus while out jogging – a plus, I’d say).
It also packs sensors and an attendant app to track heart rate (using the same light-reflection tech used in wrist-worn pulse trackers such as the TomTom Multisport Cardio), cadence (steps per minute), vertical oscillation (variation in your head’s height as you run – your head should ideally be level, and not too high), and even step analysis, tracking how long each of your feet is in contact with the ground (the idea is there shouldn’t be too much emphasis on one foot).
The last two of those are seriously esoteric, and that’s compounded by the fact that that the app in its current form doesn’t really offer any context for the data it provides. “We are not physicians,” Parrot’s man in Vegas told me, which is fair enough, but it leaves those stats …read more
Source: techradar.com – Phones
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