Sep 26

Adidas bringing miCoach fitness app exclusively to Nokia’s Lumia phones

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Wish that your beloved sportswear brand would bring its connected fitness app to your preferred smartphone platform? If your mind instantly substituted “Adidas” for the former and “Nokia” for the latter, then boom! You’re in luck. Adi Dassler’s firm is bringing its miCoach fitness app as an exclusive to Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 devices. The app, already available on iOS and Android, lets you control playlists, use Bluetooth SMART (where available) for heart-rate monitoring and will even offer voice coaching from LA Galaxy’s Omar Gonzalez. Now all we need is to scrape together the cash for a pair of adizeros and we’re good to go.

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Aug 05

Adidas miCoach X_Cell hits FCC, looks ready to track your sporting life

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Adidas miCoach X_Cell hits FCC, looks ready to track your sporting life

Judging by a recent FCC application, Adidas is about to add a new player to its miCoach lineup: the X_Cell performance monitor. According to the manual, the wee device can either be worn on your clothing or strapped to your chest for use in sports like football, soccer and tennis. So attached, it’ll store seven hours or more of your sprinting speeds, dodging and cutting forces, jump forces, workout times and heart rates. You can then connect via Bluetooth to the miCoach iOS app to monitor your progress or brag about it on Facebook or Twitter. Adidas has yet to announce it, so there’s no word on cost or an arrival date — but when it does come, coasting through practice might be a thing of the past. To see a flip-side image, hit the break.

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May 24

Adidas labs unveils 99-gram adizero soccer boot and smart ball to help raise your game

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Adidas labs details 99 gram adizero soccer boot and smart ball to help raise your game

Adidas isn’t shy about embracing technology. In fact, sometimes it takes that a little further than you might expect. Today, however, it’s very much about genuine performance enhancement as we were invited down to a not-so-secret location in central London to look at its latest innovations in (to use the local parlance) football. Think you’ve got Premier League potential? Even if you don’t, Adidas thinks its got a few tricks that might help you at least get a few steps nearer, so to speak. Jog past the break to find out what it’s been working on.

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Jul 19

Adidas miCoach Elite System set to equip all MLS teams in 2013, creates world’s first ‘smart league’

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Adidas miCoach Elite System set to equip all MLS teams in 2013, creates world's first 'smart league'

Today was yet another marvelous day for football buffs everywhere, as Adidas and MLS have announced Major League Soccer will be the first intelligent circuit on the globe. Having already planned an official debut for the German company’s Elite System, now the pair’s made it known that the wearable technology is going to be expanding well beyond next week’s All-Star Game and into the MLS 2013 season. To refresh your mind a bit, the miCoach Elite System tracks an array of instrumental player data, such as speed (even if painfully slow like the Rio Ferdinand of late), acceleration, position, heartbeat and even the intensity of play — which is then pushed instantly to, you guessed it, a coach’s miCoach-equipped iPad. Adidas didn’t mention when, or if, the Elite System will be adapted elsewhere, so we’ll have to wait and see how long it takes others to join the “smart soccer” fun.

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Jul 15

Adidas miCoach out now on European Xbox 360s and PS3s, connects to cameras and own hardware

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Adidas miCoach out now on European Xbox 360s and PS3s, connects to cameras and Adidas hardware

Those looking to hone their own olympian body in preparation for this year’s Games can grab Adidas’ miCoach title for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Tapping into both consoles’ respective motion-sensing cameras (and Adidas’ own sensors and units), there are six sports to dabble in, with over 400 different exercises that can be synced with existing miCoach accounts. There’s also a raft of Adidas-emblazoned athletes to take you through those motions. The games are priced up at £21 (around $32) a piece in the UK, but American indoor athletes can expect their version to arrive around July 24.

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