Google has at the SXSW-festival ‘talking’ shoes displayed. In the footwear have developers not only a speaker, but also microcontrollers and a few sensors. The shoe may, for example, the wearer’s urge to exercise.
In an Adidas running shoe by Google developers, an accelerometer, pressure sensors and a gyroscope placed. It is also in the shoe are a microcontroller is provided, which via bluetooth can connect with an Android smartphone. On the basis of the collected information of the wearer of the shoes can also be in the shoe built-in speaker to comment, for example, prompts during exercises or encouragement to exercise.
The concept of Google falls under its Art, Copy & Code project. In addition to that the running shoe can give feedback through the integrated speaker, can the collected data, according to Google also be used in social-media applications or for ads. Google let Engadget know that it has no concrete plans to make the technology in this form on the market, if the company, for example, with its Glass project is already working on a product for wearable computing to develop. Would the search giant to consider the source code used in the form of open source.
