Philips Activa Fitness MP3 Player, Your Digital Workout Partner
Philips wants you to get off your couch and more Activa. The Activa Fitness MP3 Player is one a small breed of smart MP3 players that are tailored for people leading an active lifestyle. Smart MP3 players take into account what you are doing and adjust the musical selection accordingly. The Activa monitors your activity and adjusts the music selection up tempo or down tempo accordingly. Moving a lot, fast music plays; start to slow down and the digital coach kicks in to motivate you to do better. Shouting motivational slogans at you like "burn the envelope" and "feel the extreme" until you get back into rhythm. Or something like that. There's a few other music players out there that either coach or DJ to your workouts but none of them that do both so far. The TempoMusic system also will ask you to select motivational songs for additional encouragement in case their cyber-coaching fails to uplift. The player should hit retail in April this year and will set you back $129 and approximately 2 holiday pounds per week. 1000 points to the first person to hack it to be abusive or sullen and convince you to give up and have another Twinkie.
