You stick the sensor on your running shoe as per a normal pedometer. The cool bit is that you plug in the receiver to your ipod and you get a hole load of functionality. It not only gives you all the normal stuff, pace, distance covered etc, but it will also speak it to you through your headphones to save you averting your concentration from the road. And the piece-da-residence allowing you to upload this information onto the nikeplus website to keep track of your running program.

The problem is, we’ll have to wait until July 13th to get hold of this stuff. Never has the anticipation of just running been so great.