Adidas 1 Self-Adapting Shoes

The Times ’ electrical circuit department accidentally report about something interesting this dawn when they talk about the development of the new ‘ Adidas 1 ’ self - adjust running shoe . Although the clause is too busy beget quotes from Rob Enderle to really break down what exactly the shoes do to adapt , I was able to triangulate that an internal detector is join to a 20 - megahertz microprocessor inside each shoe which takes a series of readings , adjusting the amount of soften to the environment and foundation - position . No one cares about that , though , because the Adidas 1 has shiny light-emitting diode and a computer inside of it , and that will undertake it at least some degree of success , even though they are a $ 250 pair of shoes that require a brisk set of batteries every 100 hours . ( Thanks , Andrew ! )

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Update : Technovelgy remind us that the Adidas 1 is n’t the first brake shoe to have an onboard computer . That honor goes to VectraSense ’s Raven ThinkShoe , which will plausibly get wide dispersion before Adidas ’s exemplar . However , until one of these shoe makes the Steve Austin shutuhtuhtuhtuh sound when I run , they ’ll have to feel another customer .