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“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
I think the villain in Law Abiding Citizen killed somebody using a trap tie of some sort.
Haaaaaagh, that's fuckin excellent. Now Invision a dystopian future where hackers assassinate a corrupt politician by strangulation. Fuck yeah dystopian future.
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.
For sure, but a large many modern problems which result in fatalities daily are not hard engineering problems to solve.