Your shoe analyses your run

Scribe Labs has come up with a very unique first product, runScribe, which they launched for crowdfunding last week and saw its campaign cross the 50,000 US dollar funding goal that they had set in only in 52 hours. What is it about this wearable that has people going crazy about it ? the wearable gives its users kinematic metrics that help understand how factors like shoe selection, terrain and fatigue change the way you run. Designed with an advanced 9-axis integrated motion processor, runScribe’s kinematic engine gives the ordinary person the kind of advanced running metrics unseen outside of a professional lab environment.

The technology available in the market right now is only capable of tracking thing like steps, distance and speed that aren’t giving people enough to be able to bring about any noteable increase in performance or reduction in injury. runScribe with its technology that uses the geometry of motion, makes thousands of calculations for every stride and reports on 13 detailed metrics giving the runner all the data he or she needs. If you are a data driven athlete then definitely this is something that will appeal to you because the kind of data available through runScribe has never been captured in a comercially available consumer device therefore giving athletes, trainers and coaches real-world data to make the kind of decisions they never had information to in the past.
“The response from runners, both casual and professional, has been rewarding because they understand that running is a sport with an incredibly high injury rate. The metrics that we use today to assess our performance only tell part of the story,” explainsTim Clark, CEO and co-founder of Scribe Labs. “As a community, we need to be smarter about how we run, and with runScribe, runners can have a deeper understanding about how the decisions they make impact their running mechanics.”