Adidas Smart Shoes with uC chip

Gransee

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An important milestone for shoes... Adidias is developing a running shoe with a microcontroller inside.

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This is part of the move in technology from "dumb" products to smart products.

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I'd like to see the poor battery that will be capable of lifting myself ... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
more seriously though, sounds great. if they'll do that to normal shoes I am all ears.
thanx for showing us1
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"But the $250 price tag is likely to make it a luxury item when it first goes on sale in December, said Paul Swangard, managing director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon."

Now I have to decide whether to get some nice running shoes or an ARC4.
 

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I'm surprised they didn't make the whole apparatus self-powered with a peizo crystal to charge a capacitor, etc...
 
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