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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Well, considering the target demographics...
Kids can’t write, read cursive, tell time on a clock with hands or use a rotary dial phone anymore.
Unarmed teens celebrate...
Now if Nike could only design a line of pants that pull themselves up...
BLMers will blow their entire welfare check on ‘athletic’ shoes that no actual athlete would ever wear.
When was the last time you saw a rotary-dial phone in service?
Last time I saw one was 2008, in a very remote Inuit village ...
Not sure, but I believe there are still tens of thousands of rotary payphone. Recently saw a video of some kids trying to figure out how to use one.
And how many thousand$ will a pair of them cost; and what will they weigh?
Idiocracy here we come.
Tyrone Shoelace. Was it Benson and Hedges ads that had those crowd shots, with desciptors in fine print?
I have a pair of those, and another in black. I wear one or the other daily and love them. :)
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I've seen several recently where the waistband was fully below the buttocks.
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