Shoes are a fantastic idea, and highly overlooked. The biggest hurdle to wearable technology is the friction required to convince a consumer to wear it. We all wear shoes. We don't all wear glasses or watches. Some of us even wear contacts to avoid wearing glasses. The Smartshoe doesn't seem as competitive to Google Glass as it is complimentary. Glasses have a better appeal for visual media capture because you can se…
It also needs to be useful on a relatively regular basis otherwise there's a dissonance between added value and the additional cost. For these shoes to be useful you need to be walking somewhere you don't know the way to, without someone with you who knows the way with you, for a distance that makes you not want to take your phone out to check you're going the right way occasionally. I don't think I've been in that s…
Re: India’s Answer to Google Glass: The Smartshoe
#61I am not sure that people always need to actively navigate when on foot. You just go in the right general direction noticing places you recognise. You could subtly push the user along paths they have taken before and resist unknown paths. With gentle enough vibration and enough use would you even notice the prompting? It would just become a part of your natural navigation instead of the constant nagging of turn by turn.