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Nike’s auto-laced future

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Re: Nike’s auto-laced future

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Post by beefalo »

akurilin wrote: post #25
rhcom2 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I was just going to say, I've always had a good experience with Boa systems on snowboarding boots, even though people claim they break regularly. Surprised they didn't get adopted by the sneaker industry. I'm guessing it's either too expensive, or too bulky for them, until now at least. Edit: Actually, turns out they have been already used in sports shoes, go figure! The aesthetics don't quite seem exquisite, but the…

They are pretty common on golf shoes now

Re: Nike’s auto-laced future

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Post by scottlocklin »

When I was a kid I expected us to have controlled fusion power plants, hovercraft and Gerald O'Neal space colonies by now.

Instead we have soylent, a nightmare corporate-government surveillance dystopia and ... plastic moccasins, and I'm supposed to be impressed.

Re: Nike’s auto-laced future

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Post by Sir_Substance »

Xylakant wrote: post #40
TeMPOraL wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

These shoes don’t either. They can be operated manually, as the article states. They have a built-in Sensor and auto-lace when you put them on. You just cannot have some of the nice things that the app brings: multiple different profiles, ...

If the article is accurate, the first time you use them you /must/ use the app to configure them and /must/ log into your flipping shoe account of all things to do so.

An engineer that didn't have a marketing department breathing down his back to drive "engagement" would just have the LEDs on the side also be buttons and tell the user to hold them for 10 seconds to put them in a configuration mode, but hey, if they did that nike couldn't force you to give up your email to use your shoes and then use it to send you spam...

Re: Nike’s auto-laced future

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scottlocklin wrote: post #53

When I was a kid I expected us to have controlled fusion power plants, hovercraft and Gerald O'Neal space colonies by now. Instead we have soylent, a nightmare corporate-government surveillance dystopia and ... plastic moccasins, and I'm supposed to be impressed.

You were supposed to be the generation that made those things.

Re: Nike’s auto-laced future

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Post by scottlocklin »

subsubsub wrote: post #55
scottlocklin wrote: post #53

When I was a kid I expected us to have controlled fusion power plants, hovercraft and Gerald O'Neal space colonies by now. Instead we have soylent, a nightmare corporate-government surveillance dystopia and ... plastic moccasins, and I'm supposed to be impressed.

You were supposed to be the generation that made those things.

Be happy with your plastic moccasins, prozac and pornography, citizen.

Re: Nike’s auto-laced future

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Post by aboutruby »

scottlocklin wrote: post #53

When I was a kid I expected us to have controlled fusion power plants, hovercraft and Gerald O'Neal space colonies by now. Instead we have soylent, a nightmare corporate-government surveillance dystopia and ... plastic moccasins, and I'm supposed to be impressed.

Did you expect to have most of the information in the world available on demand? Anywhere? And be able to communicate with anybody anywhere? I guess it's hard predicting the future http://www.paulgraham.com/ecw.html

Re: Nike’s auto-laced future

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Post by yason »

michelb wrote: post #26
sdrothrock wrote: post #9

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/

Difference between fiction and reality I guess. In the movie you don't have to think about how it works (magic), but in reality, yes sure, it will need a battery I guess. Which is yet another thing you need to charge. There are lacing profiles which you control in an app, adding complexity to something that should 'just work'. Why can't the shoe adapt to the swelling of your feet? Perhaps v2 will do that. I personall…

it will need a battery I guess. Which is yet another thing you need to charge.

It can charge the battery by generating electricity off the forces exerted by the wearer's movement.

Why can't the shoe adapt to the swelling of your feet?

If the software did control the amount of pressure the laces transfer to the foot instead of the length of the laces the shoe would adapt to feet of any size.

Just add a few more sensors and write more software.

Re: Nike’s auto-laced future

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Post by scottlocklin »

aboutruby wrote: post #57
scottlocklin wrote: post #53

When I was a kid I expected us to have controlled fusion power plants, hovercraft and Gerald O'Neal space colonies by now. Instead we have soylent, a nightmare corporate-government surveillance dystopia and ... plastic moccasins, and I'm supposed to be impressed.

Did you expect to have most of the information in the world available on demand? Anywhere? And be able to communicate with anybody anywhere? I guess it's hard predicting the future http://www.paulgraham.com/ecw.html

I definitely expected to be able to talk to a computer like in star trek and have it synthesize me an answer, yes.

I didn't anticipate it would be delivered using a markup language via a centralized solution, nor that it would be cluttered up with ads and irrelevant marketing bilge or press releases in nonsense like modern online magazines.

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