Apple Patents: Apple Jumping into the Shoe Industry?

“A body bar sensing system for sensing movement of a body bar may be provided. The body bar sensing system may include a housing having a coupling mechanism operative to couple to the body bar, a detector disposed within the housing and operative to sense movement of the body bar when the housing is coupled to the body bar, and a processor operative to determine a number of repetitions of the movement based on the sensed movement. The body bar sensing system may also include a display operative to display the determined number of repetitions of the movement to a user.”

As interesting as this sounds, it is hard to imagine Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) would tie up resources in this type of project. Of course, the company has fooled us in the past.

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