Nike, Apple Team Up on iPod Running Gear

From what I've read on other sites, people have stated that you could use the sensor in any shoe, but your most comfortable fit would be with a shoe that had a compartment for the sensor. Otherwise I'd assume, especially if your running, that it would hurt your foot.

Yes, if that thing has to go under your foot somehow, I wouldn't risk running on it unless it was in a compartment designed to distribute the load. Otherwise, you'd end up with some horrible stone bruises and probably a busted $29 sensor. Further, I'm not likely to tear up my $90 running shoes to install a sensor on them which might result in getting lower mileage out of them.

I believe that you could and it is conceivable that it would work out side the shoe just fine but in order to get the sensor you would need to pony up the money for a pair of Nike shoes to take the sensor out of.

The $29 accessory is only so the sensor can link to the ipod (I think it uses bluetooth or at least something similar). The sensor will be permanently in the shoe which means you would need to destroy the shoe to get the sensor out.

*Conspiracy Theory*
Also the battery is not replaceable so if it dies you need to buy a new pair of shoes. They haven't said how long the battery is expected to last but I can see it only lasting half the time one might expect to get out of the shoes.

If you can put the sensor in the shoe by just plugging it in there, why on earth would you expect it to be impossible to take out again? It's not like they put a bunch of glue in there and go "hahahaha, suckers!" in their offices while they watch over thousands of people do this. It makes no sense to make it impossible to take out.

I think I might start running.

That's the real power in this partnership, I think: it has made running cool and fun, even for those (like me) who would probably never truly get into it otherwise.

I, too, have now contemplated running. But mostly because I realized that by the time I move to California, I won't be biking daily anymore and will need an alternative to stay in shape. I was already looking into such activities, so to speak.

Yes, but I would like to know how does that sensor fit into the Nike shoe and is it something that you can simply clip to any running shoe? I'm not interested in having a large bump under my insole or cutting a hole into the cushioning of my non-Nike shoes. If you check out the products section of the Nike+ site, you'll see that the sensor isn't especially thin (it looks like a mini Altoids Mint tin). It fits into a pocketed area beneath the sock liner.

I suspect that it is a impact and motion sensor combined with a bluetooth transmitter, but that's only my guess. If it does work as an impact sensor, I suspect clipping it to the outside of a shoe won't do any good. However, anyone with $29 to spare should definitely check it out and let us all know.

A number of people have mentioned clipping it to the outside of the show, but I don't see how that would work. First the device is designed to fit in a left-side shoe, which has me thinking the equivalent of a Dr. Scholls device. Second the image of the shoe I saw, has a special compartment in the bottom of the shoe that allows the main body of the device to slide below sole level of the shoe.

I doubt if it will be usable in your current model of running shoe. If it was, Nike wouldn't have to introduce a new shoe line to support it. I imagine that once the device is available for purchase, any number of shoe vendors could purchase one and design shoes that it would be usable in; but even then Nike would benefit from product name recognition—Nike+iPod Sport Kit—just like the iPod name has become synonymous with MP3 player.