A running shoe review organization has analyzed over 1,000 shoes through destructive testing and lab evaluation, with 11 currently under testing and 41 more purchased for future assessment. The publication provides detailed guides on shoe technologies and features.
A developer created Kinapod, a platform that repurposes AirPods' built-in motion sensors as wireless inertial measurement units (IMUs) for sports tracking without hardware modifications. By disabling Automatic Ear Detection and treating AirPods as motion sensors rather than earbuds, the platform can track discs, bowling balls, and running metrics with 50 Hz sampling rate and sub-150ms latency, achieving approximately 1% error on treadmill pace estimation through signal processing and physics-based algorithms.