Thanks to references in both Apple’s fifth generation iPod Nano and the Nike+ iPod user guides, we’ve known for a while now that it was likely that Nike had a Nike+ heart rate monitor in the works.
Now, it looks like we’ve got a release date. According to a post on the Nike+ support forums, the heart rate monitor will be released to the U.S. market on June 1st, 2010, with Canada getting it later in the months and international customers getting it sometime in the summer.
Otherwise, there’s no details available, so we’ll have to see what Nike and Apple have in store. At the very least, I hope that when it’s released, there’s functionality to adjust the tempo of your music or even switch playlists according to how hard your heart is pumping. Sometimes, you just need a little audiophonic push to get you over that hill.
[via TUAW]
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
