78 - Pro Stergiou of Sport Product Testing

What this episode covers

Endurance Innovation is now on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/enduranceinnovation]! Have a peek at our page and show us some love. * 1:30 a bit about Pro and the Sport Product Testing group of the Canadian Sport Institute and the 'Fit, Feel, Function' process * 6:15 why is wrist-based optical HR so useless when cycling * 8:00 optical HR carries a lag time to true HR of up to 120 seconds * 9:30 optical HR motion artifact errors  * 14:00 the challenges of porting medical devices into the consumer sport field * 15:30 the birth of the running footpod  * 21:00 the product 'feel': auditory, visual, olfactory  * 24:15 on 'slappy' shoes * 26:30 the value of a 'lack' of feeling * 28:15 obtaining high quality subjective feedback from testers * 34:30 the future of sport products / services: data collection and usage * 38:00 the continuing story of useless and even harmful data Learn more about the Sport Product Testing group at their website [https://www.sportproducttesting.com/]and if you're in the Calgary area, consider volunteering as a product tester [https://www.sportproducttesting.com/participants].