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Apple to help you get in shape! In an interesting story over at CNET, it looks like Apple has filed a patent for a new health information product that looks like it would combine your iPod and an application on your computer (Mac/Win). The product appears to be an application that would require both a personal computer (reportedly both Mac and Windows) and one of Apple's iPod Touch and iPhone devices. The desktop-based software would initially ask the user to fill out an extensive survey pertaining to health and lifestyle, as well as workout goals and preferences, and then determine a workout regimen that would then synchronize to the mobile handset for trips to the gym. Also in the filings were hints that there may be some new hardware components, too, as with the Nike+iPod add-on that Apple released back in 2006. Like that product, this one could allow users to challenge their friends to workout competitions, and then keep track of rank with a points system. Privacy wonks might freak out when (and if) this new product hits: according to the AppleInsider post, the survey in the desktop software includes questions about occupation, religious belief, identity, income level, familial status, and other things that go far beyond what the average Facebook profile discloses. Apple could potentially have a whole lot of information on a whole lot of people--right on down to whether they think they're fat. On the bright side, maybe it really does take Steve Jobs & Co. to turn thousands of pasty geeks into toned, buff gym rats. For the full story, click here! Posted at 06:06AM Mar 28, 2008 by Kevin P McAuliffe in Astound | Comments[0] 
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