14 DAY TRIAL // Even with all the content hanging around the iTunes store, or the currently existing songs in your library, you're eventually going to get bored of listening to the same thing over and over again. Developer Greg Elliott thought of a solution to that: SynchStep. It allows you, as an iPhone / iPod touch owner, to plays songs from your music library that match your pace. Basically, every step you take lands in-time with a drum hit, a bass pluck, a piano chord.
The best thing about SynchStep is that it doesn't sport a GUI (Graphical User Interface). As a user, you just hit the button on the top of your iPhone (to turn the screen off), and put it in your pocket. A song will come in once your pace stabilizes (it usually takes 6-10 seconds). "Unlike other music players, synchstep connects the music in your head to the music in your body. you don't have a lot of control over what comes on," developer Greg Elliott notes, adding that its purpose is to liberate you. "Use synchstep when you don't know what you want to listen to, when you don't care, or when you just want something good. let go of some control. let your feet pick the beat," he added.
The PokeNewYork website reveals that SychStep was originally available as a hand-made, custom built MP3-player sporting a display-less experimental interface. The device only used an on-off switch and it was given to people age 10 to 65 to play with. The surveyed folks weren't told what it was for, but just how to use it. As soon as they went for a walk they easily understood its purpose, "probably because the 'user interface' is really the user's body," the website notes.
Nevertheless, since it was pretty expensive to hand out hundreds of these devices, SynchStep needed a new, cheaper platform. Before Greg Elliott could open his mouth, the iPhone and iPod touch arrived on the scene, providing not a cheap, but a free platform to throw SynchStep on for more experiments.
So, practically anyone who owns an iPhone or an iPod touch can try it out right now, for free. Of course, donations are accepted. Click HERE to get SyncStep now.
Detailed instructions on how to setup and use SynchStep can be found right here.