Without updates or ability to download after August, app will become useless.

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.

  • Firestorm Druid@lemmy.zipEnglish
    17·
    4 months ago

    Back in our Business 101 class in university, we were supposed to come up with a new business idea and pitch it. We came up with a self-tying tie. Guess we weren’t too far off lol

    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      242·
      4 months ago

      The liability for a product that tightens around a neck would make it an untouchable concept for businesses. I could imagine a dystopian future where some big brand like Dickies selling it and when it kills people they claim the fine print very clearly disallows any shirts except for patented self-tying tie constrained collar shirts.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        4 months ago

        Or there might be a future leader who is a Darth Vader wannabe and creates a system where everyone wears a self-tightening tie and he can gesture at anyone who annoys him to choke them until he stops gesturing.

      • GetKebab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        4 months ago

        Haaaaaagh, that’s fuckin excellent. Now Invision a dystopian future where hackers assassinate a corrupt politician by strangulation. Fuck yeah dystopian future.

      • Corhen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        it shouldnt be TOO hard to make it safe: just add a lanyard style breakaway at the back of the next. light tug pops the tie off.

        You could make it simply self tighten, saving you one arm movement.

      • Abnorc@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        I think the villain in Law Abiding Citizen killed somebody using a trap tie of some sort.

      • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 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.todayEnglish
          12·
          4 months ago

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

      • The Menemen!@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Add bonus features already installed on the shoe, but need an extra subscription. Maybe clips to connect them to your bike pedals, but it costs 4.99€/month to actually use that feature. Think about all the feature subscription you could sell for a good hiking shoe.

        (I really hope they won’t do this, but I can see them trying it.)