Nike’s auto-laced future
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Nike’s auto-laced future
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#2I'm surprised a sport like basketball would allow players to wear apparel which improves their performance using electronics and a motor.
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#3I'm surprised a sport like basketball would allow players to wear apparel which improves their performance using electronics and a motor.
My read was that it'll improve safety and recovery more than enhance performance.
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#4Interesting 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 isn't as dumb as the cynical might have assumed.
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#5Not for me. I prefer manual shoe lace. Sometimes i think the world is going dumb
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#6Would a player trip if their shoe was hacked to suddenly release tension?
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#7For me it's not overkill at all. It makes perfect sense on the safety/medical benefits alone. I walk two hours a day. In my prime I ran 5 miles or more/day and biked three times that. My feet pronate and I have to wear orthotic insoles.
For whatever reason I've never been able to keep my shoes stable. They either start too tight and have to be adjusted or are a little too lose, thus reducing ankle stability. I would welcome these on strictly utilitarian benefits. Since I spend $300 every six months on shoes that don't wreck what's left of my fallen arches, this would be a lateral move financially anyway, I suspect.
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#8If you lose wifi will you be unable to take your shoe off ?
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#9It'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/
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#10If you lose wifi will you be unable to take your shoe off ?
1) They use bluetooth, not wifi.
2) They're actually designed to work in situations where you don't even have your phone as a primary use case.
So no, of course not. That was actually a major point made early on in the article. If you'd even skimmed the article, you'd have seen the answer to your question. :)