The Price: $79

The Verdict: If you use the Nike+ iPod kit regularly, you'll know it's not easy to fiddle with your iPod during a workout. While running, we found the music playback controls convenient—even though we had an armband that held our Nano within reach—because you could do a no-look song switch or volume adjust. One of the two buttons on the side triggers the "current status" event in your iPod, which has the robotic lady voice read your distance, time and pace through your earphones. When you're done, you can even use the controls on the watch to pause or stop your workout.

It's great for people who use their Nike+ iPod Sport Kit very often, but $79 is a bit too expensive for those who don't. [Nike Store]

In fact, this Nike reference was found in LingoToAccessoryMap.plist, so according to Erica, it's "definitely going to be a supported accessory". Looks like someone at Apple heard our challenge and decided to make us all very happy. Because seriously, why force people to buy another flash-based iPod when you've got a flash-based iPod in your iPhone? That's exactly the kind of practice we frown on. Can someone with 1.1.1 and a Nike+ sport kit test this out to see if it works now and email me?

Update: Reader Jake tells me it still doesn't work with the iPhone. Thanks Jake!

I can understand why Apple made the decision to make the Nike+ Sport Kit not work with the iPhone (providing a reason to buy an iPod Nano, preventing possible damage to a $399 device, differentiating products, whatever), but iPhone users still want this thing to work with their phones. After all, the phone's flash-based, relatively small and light (if you use an armband), and should work perfectly with the kit—in theory.

Is making the kit work with the iPhone possible? Can you access the 30-pin accessory port with the iPhone? If you can, is it possible to interface with this thing using the iPod nano as reference? Is this a pipe dream, or could this possibly be done?

If enough people get behind this idea, there could even be a bounty set up to reward the hacker(s) that enable this. Let's see where we can take this.

Be warned: while all the other sheep are gushing about the Nike+ iPod Sport Kit, I have a gripe. I have the Nike+ iPod Sport Kit and the accompanying Nike Moire shoes, and I like those shoes better than the sensor, which can't seem to figure out how far or fast I'm walking. Maybe it's just for runners, but for walking the thing is wildly inaccurate, even to the point of being insulting. It's no fun to walk 5 miles and some worthless dumbass thingamajig says I only walked 2.6. Walkers: avoid. – Charlie White

Use the Nike + iPod Sports Kit with any shoes [Sci Fi Tech]