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It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.

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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

Isn't the point of self-lacing shoes that they shouldn't require manual user input at all? What is the app for then?

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 years ago
[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That’s what my shoes were missing: spyware!

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca -5 points 2 years ago

Oh god! The Chinese know how tight my shoes are? They could overthrow the entire globe with such devastating info!

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

It’s adorable you think “shoelace tightness” is all that app has awareness of.

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I don't know why my first thought from this was Ruth Gator Binsburg. Now I just want something like a shitty_watercolor of that.

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