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Testing Shoes That Make You Walk 250% Faster
- beefman 4y agoI saw these here two months ago[1] and crowdfunded a pair immediately. They haven't arrived yet. The only potential downside I see is noise. It wasn't mentioned in the video but it seemed like ambient sound was seldom used in the mix, and I'm easily annoyed by the kind of high-pitch sound emitted by everything Dyson makes, for example. But even if noise is a showstopper for me, I'll consider it money well spent. In fact I'd be happy to go back in time to have crowdfunded them sooner! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33396514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33396514
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoI wonder if these could replace ice rinks and skates and if that would require anything more than just temporarily removing the braking feature.
- verdverm 4y agoskating is an outward striding motion, the skate blade edges have important usage in turning, stopping, spinning, going backwards. These are very different and could not replace ice athletics