Posted on 03/10/2013 8:18:21 PM PDT by null and void
AUSTIN, Texas — Forget Google Glass, Google’s got sneakers now. Well, at least it does at SXSW.
No, the search giant isn’t planning to get into the sneaker or footwear business, but to showcase its new advertising innovation program called “Art, Copy and Code” the company has hacked together a crazy pair of sneakers that would even draw Marty McFly’s attention.
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LISTER: Just think how Holly feels!?
RIMMER: Feels? He never feels anything, Lister. He’s a computer.
LISTER: He still feels. In fact, sometimes i think it’s cruel giving machines a personality. My mate Petersen once brought a pair of shoes with artificial intelligence. Smart Shoes, they were called. It was a neat idea. No matter how blind drunk you were, they would always get you home. Then he got ratted one night in Oslo, and woke up the next morning in Burma. See, the shoes got bored just going from his local to the flat. They wanted to see the world, man, y’know? He had a helluva job getting rid of them. No matter who he sold them to, they’d show up again the next day! He tried to shut them out, but they just kicked the door down, y’know?
RIMMER: Is this true?
LISTER: Yeah! Last thing he heard, they’d sort of, erm, robbed a car and drove it into a canal. They couldn’t steer, y’see.
RIMMER: Really?!
LISTER: Yeah. Petersen was really, really blown away by it. He went to see a preist. The preist told him, he said, it was alright, and all that, and the shoes were happy, and they’d gone to heaven. Y’see, it turns out shoes have soles.
While RIMMER is thinking about this, LISTER makes his getaway.
RIMMER: Well, what a sad, sad story.
He thinks about it, then a look of puzzlement spreads across his face.
RIMMER: Wait a minute! How did they open the car door?
From what I’m hearing on the local news, Grumpy Cat is the hottest thing at SXSW..
Lemme guess. This is part of ‘The First Crazy’s’ push against ‘fatty fatties’ with Google help.
So that my boys will grow up to be beta males/metrosexuals or my daughters to be neurotic bulemists/anorexics? And pass judgement on those who they deem not to weigh the acquired government standard?
You can hear my sneakers for miles when I take them off.
So does Restless Leg Syndrome.
That’s not sound.
Cut me some slack. I used all of my best material on the screwdriver in the head thread.
*snicker*
At least it is a private company doing this and not the government.
“Dear Shoe Owner, please pick up your left foot and move it away from its current location. Your are standing in a pile of dog feces.”
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