As sports company abandons support for "smart" basketball, Nike pushes a software update that bricks its self-tying shoes

Who wants to bet that they didn’t even have the decency to include a well engineered bootloader, on this of all products?

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Somehow I missed the existence of self-tying shoes. I guess something isn’t rocket science until you over-engineer it so that it becomes rocket science.

The people I’ve heard from who worked on them said the problem wasn’t getting them to tie. It was finding the right material that they would properly loosen.

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That’s one of the use cases. I hate having to stop running in order to re-tie my shoes when the laces loosen up. :wink:

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