One of the things that I found interesting about the ithlete was that it seems to be compatible with pretty much any Polar HRM strap. This made me think that older Polar watches (like my RS200SD and many others) might be able to output raw data that could be subsequently imported into Kubios.
There are a ton of shareware programs out there that support stripping the raw data out of previous Polar watches (like Polar RS200 decoder available here). I will download the RS200 decoder, fool around with it and see if the files can be imported. It’s just a temporary solution, but worth trying. For someone on a budget, this could work a treat!
I would love to see CF.com team up with a software developer and start hammering out some apps. Seriously! Some of these programs are ridonkulously easy to write!