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As we await Daisuke Matsuzaka’s first start as a Red Sox pitcher, here’s his new Nike advert playing in Japan. The shot of Wally the Green Monster in the middle is kind of disconcerting.

$6 pouch that allows you to use your Nike iPod connector with any running shoe.

Cabel reviews the Nike+ shoe+iPod combo. Sounds like the kind of thing that might get me moving, like the Sportbrain of olde.

Looks like a splendidly well designed and smartly integrated piece of kit. Uses a small shoe sensor to count your steps, an iPod nano to track them and store the data, iTunes to sync it, and a Nike-run website to visualize it over time. If I were ever planning to get off my arse, this would probably convince me to drop $80 on Nike trainers.