Headline: 'E-bike for your feet': How bionic sneakers could change human mobility

[michelestrider@mastodon.social]

Headline: 'E-bike for your feet': How bionic sneakers could change human mobility

Me, having read The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen: No, thanks

'E-bike for your feet': How bionic sneakers could change human mobility

Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster.

NPR (www.npr.org)

[gdinwiddie@mastodon.social]

@michelestrider ... thinking about how these could be enshittified for commercial advantage over the customers.

[michelestrider@mastodon.social]

@gdinwiddie Right?!

[gdinwiddie@mastodon.social]

@michelestrider "Insert a quarter for the next 3 steps."

[michelestrider@mastodon.social]

@gdinwiddie Or "Give us your credit card number if you want to stop running in circles."

[gdinwiddie@mastodon.social]

@michelestrider
"I don't want to go into this store!"

"Too bad. The store paid for it."

[michelestrider@mastodon.social]

@gdinwiddie The negative possibilities are almost endless

[gdinwiddie@mastodon.social]

@michelestrider "I want to walk FORWARDS, so I can see where I'm going!"

[maidservantofnanaya@social.translunar.academy]

@michelestrider We already got Heely's and other Skate Shoes lol. Tech-bros reinventing the wheel again xD

[tehfishman@ioc.exchange]

@michelestrider E-bike for my feet? But Heelys is already a product that exists

[alicemcalicepants@ohai.social]

@michelestrider The Simpsons predicting the future again?

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@michelestrider

anyone who has ever played D&D and found cursed shoes knows exactly why these are a horrible idea...

[michelestrider@mastodon.social]

@tehfishman That's a good point

[michelestrider@mastodon.social]

@alicemcalicepants How? How do they always?

[nothacking@infosec.exchange]

@michelestrider Going to add these to my growing list of tech-devices-where-a-battery-failure-results-in-you-having-an-incendiary-bomb-attached-to-your-body.