Jump Rope: A Unique Healthcare App

Victor 2008-09-30 |

Use the iPhone accelerometer as rope handle and keep track of your rope jumping sessions through an iPhone healthcare app.

You had known many usages of the iPhone. But did you know the iPhone could be a rope handle?

Not just rope jump tracker. That’s pretty mundane, when you have something better than the rope.

Why, you have the iPhone’s accelerometer. And if you install the Jump Rope app in your, you can jump with your iPhone and at the time of each jump, you can flick the iPhone with the flick of your wrist so that the accelerometer becomes the rope handle. The only thing is that you need to be imaginative to be simulating your rope jump movements with a rope-handle without a rope.

You can set the hand preference (left or right) before springing the accelerometer into action. Plus, you can adjust motion sensitivities and of course add rope sounds if you want to get a feel of the real thing.
Sounds weird? It is actually pretty helpful. That is because, like most healthcare and fitness apps, Jump Rpe is also a tracker app. Which tracks your simulated rope jumping abilities through jump duration, date, jumps/minute and calorie consumed per jump session.

Good buy, if you can handle the awkward fact of having a rope handle without a rope.
So keep track of your health, in a weirdly whacky way.