Well they are the preferred shoes of Cultists.
Posted on 03/17/2016 11:41:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin
"Innovation at Nike is not about dreaming of tomorrow. It’s about accelerating toward it,” said Nike designer Tinker Hatfield at Nike’s Innovation Summit this week.
“We’re able to anticipate the needs of athletes because we know them better than anybody. Sometimes, we deliver a reality before others have even begun to imagine it.”
The shoes use something called “adaptive lacing” technology that allows the wearer to adjust the snugness of the shoe using two buttons on the side of the trainer.
It is hoped the fitting mechanism will prevent slippage and will rid athletes of the distraction caused by laces becoming loose.
“When you step in, your heel will hit a sensor and the system will automatically tighten,” said Tiffany Beers, the project’s technical lead. “Then there are two buttons on the side to tighten and loosen. You can adjust until it’s perfect.
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Or you could just tie your damn shoes.
tyrone shoes
That was one of the joys of motherhood...teaching him to tie his shoes.
Getting him to find his shoes...not so much.
This perfectly states where we are as a society.
No, it's about marketing strategies that make ignorant people willing to pay hundreds for garishly colored sneakers.
Pre-strung and fixed tied thin bungee cord and they call it self tying? LAME!
Question now is how many kids will be mugged or killed for the bastards.
When she was about 12, the cub was at a friend’s house and saw her putting shoes with Velcro fastners on her toddler brother. She told her dad and I about it at dinner that night, saying she worried that soon kids would never learn to tie their shoes-it seems she was right, if a bit ahead of the time...
“The Consumer Decides”
We had Velcro. It worked really well.
I would love for those shoes to have made it into the “future”.
I know velcro is not cool amongst the tragically hip, but damn it, no batteries are needed to self tie shoes!
Since there is usually no dad around to teach the kids how to tie their laces...let Nike just do it.
Next they should tackle pants that pull themselves all the way up ;-)
Bernie supporters can wear Nike’s now.
BLM?
Well they are the preferred shoes of Cultists.
Or maybe toilet paper that ...... OK, I’m going there.
Let’s just say “after you take an Obama” and leave it at that.
I’m still waiting for self-unsnapping bras.
He married Lashya Sandals. They have a kid named Tyah.
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