Moving

Every once in a while, I hear about a tech idea that has the potential to make an enormous difference. This week, it’s Walkcast. It’s a podcast that changes based on where you are walking. So you allow it to know your location (I know, creepy), and then it tailors the podcast you’re listening to to the space you’re in — some of it is real, some of it not.

From the site:

Walkcast is an ever-changing podcast generated as you walk, revealing the hidden layers that surround you. Each step might unlock a new fact about the street you’re on, or sometimes, it just makes stuff up. But does it matter if it’s real, as long as it’s a good story?

I’m good at getting myself up to walk daily, but if I wasn’t, I could see this being an enormous motivator. It would encourage you to get out of ruts and walk in new places or work exercise into your travel plans so you get to hear stories unique to the place. And it (hopefully) moves at your speed, so if you walk briskly and cover more ground, you get more information about the world around you.

Pretty cool way to visit a new city if it works, right?