ITMP Turns IPhone Into Heart Monitor for Workouts
Lots of iPhone and iPod touch users take their mobile devices along on workouts to provide the soundtrack to a bike ride or a jog. iTMP Technology thinks the iPhone can take a more active role in your fitness routine.
The company makes SMHeart Link, a wireless bridge device that lets the iPhone double as a heart monitor and fitness tracking system. The 3.5-by-1.5-by-0.5-inch, 3-ounce SMHeart Link collects data from several different sensors--heart rate monitors, cycling sensors, and so forth--sending what it collects to the iPhone or iPod touch via Wi-Fi. When you're done with a workout, just upload the data with a touch of a button to any of the apps that have been developed to work with the SMHeart Link.
"There's a ton of fitness apps [on the App Store]," iTMP founder and CEO Michael Williams told me last month at Macworld Expo where he was demoing SMHeart Link and its attendant apps on a stationary bike. "But none listen to your heart."
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