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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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[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not a complicated engineering problem to solve though. A weak enough stepper motor wont be able to strangle anything even if its controlling software is hacked and turned to 11.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today -1 points 5 months ago

For sure, but a large many modern problems which result in fatalities daily are not hard engineering problems to solve.

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