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“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

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