Shoes that detect WiFi?
"A Step in the Right Direction" is apparently the name of a new prototype shoe that could detect WiFi hot-spots where the users are walking. The shoes have a full tower PC in the platform heel integrated electronics, including a pressure sensor in the sole to start scans, LED indicators in the top, and presumably something connecting it all together. I sometimes wonder whether we over-engineer solutions to potentially simple problems - surely at points before this you would have got your laptop/PDA/mobile out and done a simple scan? These shoes remind me of those ones that kids have which light up when they run. Actually they remind me of novelty slippers, like these: Hmmmm. [Via: Technorati ] --- Related Articles at IntoMobile:
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