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Emphasis mine. People scoff at a phone-connected shoe (which actually sounds pretty useful for the pro basketball application as described), but I think we can all agree this is worse.
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This is addressed somewhat in the article: > Players, for example, will tell you that after about a half hour on the court, their feet will swell, sometimes up to a half size. This changes their comfort level significantly. So they have a choice: either play with their shoes too loose for 30 minutes or tighten them enough to be painful by halftime. Not with an adjustable shoe.
Why not just retie the shoelaces at halftime?
Interesting topic. Like a lot of things, it's easy and enjoyable to unload some quick snark on Twitter, and certainly anything even related to IoT is a worthy target of all the snark we can muster 99.9% of the time. On the other hand, the article points out that pro athletes have different needs than others, and these shoes (arguably!) address those needs in ways that other options do not. Also, the implementation is…
It's interesting to me that this gets lampooned, but the autolacing shoes in Back to the Future[1] (and the release of actual shoes a few years back[2]) was greeted with awe and cheers. Different crowds, maybe? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Wa5L-fkkM [2] https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/05/nike-mag-first-look/
That would be my one and only criticism of this implementation. Beyond that, it's pure awesomeness, and I want a pair.
Put it in ski boots... done and done, I’d buy it right away
Also a dream for me. The lacing system in these sneakers sounds similar to a snowboard boot's Boa system so I could imagine this tech quickly applied to those but a ski boot seems much more difficult.
Edit: Actually, turns out they have been already used in sports shoes, go figure! The aesthetics don't quite seem exquisite, but the functionality seems to be all there.
It's interesting to me that this gets lampooned, but the autolacing shoes in Back to the Future[1] (and the release of actual shoes a few years back[2]) was greeted with awe and cheers. Different crowds, maybe? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Wa5L-fkkM [2] https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/05/nike-mag-first-look/
Maybe if they allowed you to have two settings that you can control from the boot, it would be different.
So I guess some criticism stems from that Nike made something that should be simple and intuitive, into something that requires your attention and needs configuration.
It's interesting to me that this gets lampooned, but the autolacing shoes in Back to the Future[1] (and the release of actual shoes a few years back[2]) was greeted with awe and cheers. Different crowds, maybe? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Wa5L-fkkM [2] https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/05/nike-mag-first-look/
Autolacing in Back to the Future didn't require you to download vendor's app and connect to an account on vendor's service over the Internet. That would be my one and only criticism of this implementation. Beyond that, it's pure awesomeness, and I want a pair.
It's interesting to me that this gets lampooned, but the autolacing shoes in Back to the Future[1] (and the release of actual shoes a few years back[2]) was greeted with awe and cheers. Different crowds, maybe? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Wa5L-fkkM [2] https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/05/nike-mag-first-look/
> Nike rival Adidas is pursuing the goal in a different way, using interwoven textiles and self-tightening weaves in its N3XT L3V3L basketball shoe. Emphasis mine. People scoff at a phone-connected shoe (which actually sounds pretty useful for the pro basketball application as described), but I think we can all agree this is worse.
And why stop at shoes? Bring on the auto-lacing corsets, self-buttoning shirts, and auto-adjusting belts (useful for large meals).