Nike has introduced a shoe, Air Zoom Moire, which is outfitted with a sensor that can talk to your iPod. While on the surface this may have some merit it also opens the doors for privacy concerns. Nike/Apple market this as a realtime way of gathering running/jogging data to your iPod. Unfortunately, others can track you wherever you go.
The shoe contains an RFID (radio frequency id) device that has a unique identifier. This identifier can be tied to you and any entity that can read an RFID can track you. Apple and Nike had no comment on the matter.
Read about this matter in depth at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Doug
