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Adidas' newest creation has a brain in its sole

Christian DiBenedetto didn't want sensible shoes. Heading Adidas' "innovation team," he spent three years trying to create "intelligent footwear." As in a shoe with its own brain.
The resulting $250 running shoe, simply called 1 and hyped as "the most advanced shoe ever," debuts in December. Here's what is meant to be progress: It has a motor, battery, cable, magnetic sensor and a microprocessor.

The idea is that the shoe's magnetic sensing system under the heel, which takes 1,000 readings per second to figure how you're landing. That's fed to the shoe's microprocessor — which can make 5 million calculations per second — which, in turn, commands the motor-driven cable.

The cable then spews blinding smoke out the shoe's heel, fires a blow dart out the toe or just crashes the Internet, based on its own situation analysis.

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yeah - i know - the last paragragh is a joke - but for $250 bucks they could have added maxwell smart's phone




the shoe's "user interface" consists of two buttons that adjust for the runner's preference for softer or harder cushioning - five light-emitting diodes display the setting

new york times

stevie667

Scene.

PredeconInferno

Huh.... I wonder how effective this would actually be.

Personally, I'll stick with my $30 dollar Sambas.

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ibis

Bah. Shoes are for pussies.

Now here's how real men run:
http://www.runningbarefoot.org/

Rudel73

if you push a button to control the cable why do you have the microprocessor? im so confused

limey

Funny - so much technology and yet you still have to press a little + and - button, couldn't the processor have figured that out too?

MSD

The processor adjusts the landing for maximum support. If you want it to soften up or tense up, you have some wiggle room.

Spanxxx

I can hear it now, "Damn, my shoes blue screened again. Now I can't walk anymore."

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TopRamen66

Haha yeah, just wait till those motherfuckers get a virus...

roadkill

I bet some hax0r is allready working on how to nail them

over all those shoes seem spendy for deciding how hard or soft you land, btw why does it make those calculations again since you manually tell it how hard/soft you want to have an impact.

elian gonsalez

hahah, this reminds me of my favorite track event- the steeple chase. Its a mile run with hurdles and a barricaded water pit. Its so much fun to watch because people try to hurdle the barricade, and clip their feet on the way over, landing face first first in the mud. Or in this other poor fellows case, losing both shoes, on two different laps