Post Mobile (Updated version) - When the smartphone is not smart enough

Best viewed in HD! The "nerdglasses" made meaningful! Even though the smartphone and services like Runkeeper and Nike+ have transformed our training into something more social and made it easier to track our progress, a smartphone on the arm, or in the hand, while exercising is still a quite awkward situation. While these services are more focused on the post workout experience, we have created a concept which can make the actual running, skiing, biking or other workouts more meaningful and fun, using the Gosta glasses. The name is a tribute to former Swedish runner Gösta Holmér, the inventor of Fartlek. A type of interval training.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Runkeeper
• Smartphone
• Mobile
• Goggles
• Nike+
• Innovation
• Running
• HUD
• Post_Mobile
• PoMo
• Gosta
• Future_UI

[saske23b]

too bad i only found this after following a link from a blog article, which was linked from a comment in a news story. great work, please keep your great work up! :)

[oceanobservations]

@saske23b thanks! will do!

[oceanobservations]

@ihavegreenapples There is a Swedish company called Penny who has already done something similar. The Penny glasses are still quite heavy and robust and aimed at the defense industry. We probably have to wait a couple of years until technology is refined enough to support the Gosta'' type of experience.

[ihavegreenapples]

I think this is one of the most useful and usable implementations of augmented reality I've seen thus far, though.

[oceanobservations]

@ihavegreenapples Thanks for sharing, we love to hear this!

[Corgblam]

do these exist? where can i get them?

[oceanobservations]

@Corgblam hi, thanks for commenting! this is a concept that we hope someone will manufacture as soon as the necessary technology and hardware is in place (tiny parts). but our guess is it will probably take another 2 years or so... stay tuned :)

[ralat3K]

Har den anti-sladd?

[JohanKH]

@zipman73 Man får väl ha linser.

[JohanKH]

Call me, well, don't, message me because I haven't got a new phone, when they do real glass lenses with built in displays.

Like I would wear real glasses + some gimmick shit.

[Offendedbysharia]

This could been use for real gaming like shooters but effects are in the glasses

[zezler86]

This will be as popular as a cellphone

and it will have a camera, face detection and autosync to facebook.

(You can run but you cant hide)

[delasoff]

@zipman73 det kan vi inte med säkerhet svara på då Gosta'' ännu så länge är på idéstadiet, men en möjlig lösning är att personer med synfel använder linser, precis som i många andra fall då de inte kan ha sina "vanliga" glasögon på sig.

[zipman73]

Hur kommer det att fungera om man har ett synfel som kräver att man har glasögon för att kunna läsa?