Nike's New Shoes Support Siri Shortcuts and Apple Watch, Letting You Adjust Fit With Your Voice

[iMi]

Are we really so fat that we cannot bend down anymore? This is a perfect example of a company using technology for the sake of using it without it serving any meaningful purpose, in my opinion.

The ONLY exception I can see if the wearer is disabled, etc.

 

[old-wiz]

Another case of tech looking for a problem to solve. Also, those shoes are really ugly.

And probably very expensive! and would need batteries.

 

[Substance90]

Finally! It's so difficult to walk around without Siri adjusting the fit on my shoes

 

[FloatingBones]

Imagine yourself with a disability that prevents you from easily tying your shoes. Numerous ones exist. Pick any of them and you'd love to have a pair of these shoes.

Imagine yourself realizing that Boa Fit systems have been available for all kinds of shoes for years. This alternative is much cheaper than this Nike contrivance.

 

[Kevin2055]

I can do this all day.

 

[TracesOfArsenic]

Another case of tech looking for a problem to solve. Also, those shoes are really ugly.

They've got to be ugly so people notice how much money you spent on them.

 

[Cold_Beaver]

Is this what we have come to? Is there really a market for this? To answer my own question, I guess there is a limited one. Enough consumers with more money than sense may exist.

Yes there is a market. How about people with disabilities that have trouble doing this sort it thing. Take for example Michael J Fox

 

[Tech198]

HA !! Talking to your shoe is a new thing ? (in-directly)

(you'd be a complete nutter if you were directly having conversations with it)

 

[simonmet]

Waiting for the software to render these shoes obsolete.

 

[redneckitengineer]

April 1 is early again... Who needs this much stupidity in their life?

 

[Rockadile]

Need to start buying warranty for shoes now?

But we all know everyone will live barefooted as the movie WALL-E has shown

 

[maxfromdenmark]

I’ll pass, I like to keep things simple and they are ugly

 

[Judo]

We really are living in the future when we can now just use voice to tighten or untighten our shoes....who'd have thunk it watching Back to the Future all those years ago!

Yea but we still haven’t got what we all really wanted when we watched Back to the future 2!

 

[SoGood]

This is how one wastes the available planet's resources and create more eWastes!

 

[Spizike9]

waiting for smart underwear. hey siri, release my nuts.

Lololololololo

 

[philstubbington]

I have a solution, to a problem literally nobody has.....

 

[zombierunner]

Imagine someone out on the street talking to their shoes.

 

[arkitect]

Imagine someone out on the street talking to their shoes.

It is a very strange world indeed…

 

[dfs]

Nike today announced the Nike Adapt Huarache shoe, which features the company's "FitAdapt" technology that lets you adjust the fit of the shoe through Siri or your Apple Watch.

Similar to the Nike Adapt BB shoes from earlier this year, the new Huarache shoe includes a FitAdapt lacing system. Run from a midfoot motor, the system is controlled by the connected Nike app and tightens or loosens the shoe based on user control.

For the first time, these controls include speaking to Siri on your iPhone, or using the Apple Watch app. The shoe also offers preset modes for custom fits, and support for Siri Shortcuts for even easier control over the laces.

"Imagine yourself with a disability that prevents you from easily tying your shoes. Numerous ones exist. Pick any of them and you'd love to have a pair of these shoes.

In a PR image of the Nike app, the company gives an example of a Siri Shortcut like "Hey Siri, release my shoes" as a way to loosen the fit of the Nike Adapt Huarache.

Time to update my line 'Thank goodness for velcro. I don't know how you manage to tie your shoes in the morning.'

Have I been doing this wrong all these years? Go running: tie up some running shoes. Go hiking: tie up some hikers. lounge by pool: slip on some crocs?

The shoe looks bulky, and master of none if lace tightness is set to adapt to conditions. I'm not sure what sort of activities this shoe is meant for, but I don't think this is conveniencing anyone.

"Imagine yourself with a disability that prevents you from easily tying your shoes. Numerous ones exist. Pick any of them and you'd love to have a pair of these shoes.
The new Huarache shoes are a continuation of the original line that debuted in 1991. The new sneakers will go on sale on September 13 at select retailers.

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Okay, I'm capable of accepting the value of this comment. But it needs a bit of modification. For these to be useful, one would have to suffer from two physical disabilities, a.) the one that prevents him from tying his shoes, and b.) color-blindedness. Very few victims of a debilitating handicap are going to be willing to encase their feet something executed in a blinding day-glo banana yellow on the ends of their legs, such as make them resemble employees of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey.

 

[efktd]

 

[BvizioN]

waiting for smart underwear. hey siri, release my nuts.

I literally laughed loud

 

[ateslik]

As dumb as this is, at least there's no subscription involved lol.

omg that’s so true. I can also see them having a “club” that you have to register for so that you can share your shoe settings and try other peoples shoe settings. Gross.

This is cool tech, especially for people I know with disabilities, so I hope they don’t smother it in greed.
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that’s a nice picture. I remember when I didn’t know anyone with paralysis or stroke. Good times, enjoy it!

 

[Carlanga]

Is this what we have come to? Is there really a market for this? To answer my own question, I guess there is a limited one. Enough consumers with more money than sense may exist.

this seems great for people w disabilities, Parkinson, surgeries, injuries and other problems.

 

[AppleHaterLover]

that’s a nice picture. I remember when I didn’t know anyone with paralysis or stroke. Good times, enjoy it!

Isn't it better for someone with a disability to have shoes that do not have laces in the first place?

 

[name99]

legit 1st world problem need 1st world solution

Why do you immediately have to knock this?
Back problems are a huge aspect of human misery (in first or third world). At least some of that is known to be caused by foot problems (bad walking habits, poor posture, shoes that have worn unevenly).
If we can start to fix that by making more and more shoes smart, isn't that good for humanity?
These particular sneakers may well suck at this particular task -- they are first generation and probably designed with coolness rather than health in mind. But that doesn't mean that the very idea of shoes with sensors (and eventually actuators) in them is a bad idea.

You know what they also have a lot more of in the 3rd world than in the 1st world? Cataracts. Because no-one there wears sunglasses, and this has real longterm consequences.
Mocking any advance in health as unnecessary or unnatural or "1st world solution" is idiotic. Cataracts, back problems.
Both horrible issues that can be solved -- but only if your starting point is that you're even interested in trying to solve the problem.