Yet, a very annoying problem is the long trailing cable from your phone or music player and its irritating bounce and swing against your glistening sweat-layered skin. You could get a pet. A dog preferably, and not a cat, to run along with you. Though the audio encouragement you would get would be barks and a bow-wow. Or you can consider the Joggobot.
The helicopter drone will fly a few feet in front of you, so you are constantly chasing it. Think of a dog chasing a bone dangling from a string attached to a wooden branch on its back. In this case, the camera on the drone locks onto a blue and orange marker on the runner's Tshirt to track the progress and be together.
If you run off the path, or for some reason, it just can't seem to find you, the Joggobot will make a landing.
While this does sound like a pretty cool toy, and healthy one, my only concern is for runners in the concrete jungle. Would the Joggobot be able to sense other joggobots or traffic lights or birds in the area? What if the weather changes?
Perhaps future versions might come with a gps chip on the joggobot, and an emergency button on the shirt. When runners encounter an emergency, they can press the button and the joggobot will relay the gps location to the nearest police post or centre. The button will have to be water-proof of course.
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