As wereported earlier , 50 Cent and SMS Audio announced a new partnership with Intel this eventide . It ’s a program to fetch the pleasure of fitness trailing to both the flakey workout amateur and the finely sculpted mutation professional in the form of earbuds .
The BioSport In - Ear headphones can dog your spirit rate — no stamp battery want . That little bit of Intel engineering , which the company ’s New Devices VP Mike Bell describes as “ energy harvesting , ” wasshowcased at CES 2014and part the BioSport from other in - ear HR sensors , such as theLG Heartrate Monitor Earphone . The earbuds function like any other biometric - free choice , but integrated humble - vigour Intel circuits reject power already passing through the audio jack to also turn on the detector , gather data point , do a diminished flake of processing , and send the data back to your smartphone .
From there , the appRunKeeperanalyzes the data using your smartphone ’s much more powerful processor . Currently , the gimmick only plays nice with RunKeeper , thankfully not some unintelligent SMS Audio proprietary app ( ! ) , and Bell touch in a pre - briefing today that succeeding partnerships may be potential . He also mentions that as far as develop this computer hardware , the heavy lifting is over , so integration into other devices or connectivity options — including radio — are possible .
SMS Audio also brings over some design choices from its othersport - centrical headwearby fashion the earbuds out of rubberized polymer and including of the essence fret and water electric resistance up toIPX4 . Intel also invited its recent wearables acquisition , Basis , to test the BioSport ’s truth and carrying out though no Basis technical school really made its way into the gadget ( yet ) according SMS Audio Chief Executive Brian Nohe .
SMS Audio ’s new buds will transport globally “ sometime during Q4 ” — that ’s sometime late fall in human speak . And though pricing is still being tweak , Nohe slipped that they ’ll cost less than $ 150 .
Of course in order for the BioSport earbuds to realy take hold of on , they ’re going to have to serve as good earbuds and a good fitness tracker , and we wo n’t be able to find out how they are at either until we can get our hand on a pair . But the promise of fitness trailing with no charging expect is ace duper promising .
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