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“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers (arstechnica.com)

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It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.

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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Isn't the point of self-lacing shoes that they shouldn't require manual user input at all? What is the app for then?

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago

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[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I don't know why my first thought from this was Ruth Gator Binsburg. Now I just want something like a shitty_watercolor of that.

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