Consumer Electronics Show: Nike+ SportWatch GPS tracks your route and more

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At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Nike has been showing off what happened when it teamed up with GPS maker TomTom.

The Nike+ SportWatch GPS is, much as the name suggests, like taking the Nike+ shoe sensor, a wristwatch and a GPS device and tying them together with a USB cable so you can connect it to your computer.

The interface is very simple, with three buttons and four items in the home menu: clock, run, history and records. Once you’ve started running you can mark a lap by tapping the face of the watch. It also keeps track of various aspects of your run like speed, time, distance, heart rate, how many calories you’ve burned and, of course, your route.

Once you’re finished you can use the hidden USB connection to plug the device into your computer and automatically upload your stats to nikeplus.com to check yourself or share with the Nike+ community.

The SportWatch GPS has won awards for innovation and health at CES. You can pre-order one from the Nike+ website. When it hits stores on April 1 it will be priced between $199 and $299.

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-- Tim French