2/10/2011

Giga-geeky ‘Glo-Worm/Optimus Prime love-child’ enters the Tokyo Marathon!

Marathon man preps for second live stream, with multiple iPhones, iPad
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW.com) | 2011/02/09
…Joseph Tame… streamed the Tokyo marathon from a head-mounted iPhone [last year]. This year…he's planning to wear…four rotatable iPhones and an Android handset, plus an iPad to monitor the marathon's Twitter hashtag (#tm2011)… He'll be transmitting location and heart rate data, plus temperature and CO2 levels too.
Naturally he's dubbed the whole contraption the iRun, though I can't help but think that it sort of resembles a Glo-Worm/Optimus Prime love-child.…more…

Visit Joseph Tame’s website for more information and the livecast of his run on Tokyo Marathon 2011 on Feb 27th 2011. Join him on the day at www.tm2011.com – viewers are invited to actively participate via Twitter: send in your message of support or request for a haiku recital via Twitter.

Prior art: The Pongicam™

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9 Responses to “Giga-geeky ‘Glo-Worm/Optimus Prime love-child’ enters the Tokyo Marathon!”

1. PRIOR ART!!! Says:
   February 10th, 2011 at 2:02 pm

   PRIOR ART, circa 2004!
   Pongicam™
   and…
   The few, the proud, the Monitor Men!
   …

2. Herp Derp Says:
   February 10th, 2011 at 3:13 pm

   DDDDEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRPPPPPPPP!!!!!!

3. Joseph Tame Says:
   February 10th, 2011 at 10:24 pm

   Thanks for reposting the story. Quite like your title too – maybe I should use that next time I make business cards.

   Joseph-Giga-geeky ‘Glo-Worm/Optimus Prime love-child-Tame

4. Gaijin Haiku Says:
   February 11th, 2011 at 2:03 am

   One fall crushes
   your expensive iphones.
   We know softbank blows.

5. Taro Says:
   February 11th, 2011 at 8:35 pm

   Joseph Giga-geeky-Glo-Worm/Optimus-Prime love-child Tame wrote:
   …maybe I should use that next time I make business cards…

   I doubt you remember, but a couple of years ago I gave you one of my business cards with a similar bodaciously bogus title on it. :-)

   Anyway, I will make a followup post when you finish the Tokyo Marathon. Rots-of-ruck!

6. Joseph Tame Says:
   February 11th, 2011 at 10:42 pm

   Thanks, I’ll need all the ruck I can get!

7. Taro Says:
   February 11th, 2011 at 11:05 pm

   Joseph Giga-geeky-Glo-Worm/Optimus-Prime-lovechild Tame wrote:
   … I’ll need all the ruck I can get!

   If you put together a pre-race Press Release, I could slam Twitter and few forums with it to give you more PR the day before (or the day of) the race.

8. Taro Says:
   February 22nd, 2011 at 9:47 am

   
   Update…

   Man will run Tokyo Marathon with dizzying array of gadgetry, amazing lack of shame (video)
   Feb 21st 2011 — Engadget

9. MsEnlightement Says:
   March 3rd, 2011 at 12:11 am

   Taro, did you see this new trance-induced running meditation technique (Tokyo Marathon)? Is this is a MLM?

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