The idea is a simple one: Your PDA won't know you until you've walked a mile in your shoes. High tech, gait-sensing BlueTooth-enabled shoes, that is.
Plantiga Technologies, a Canadian security startup, wants to revolutionize both the shoe and security business with shoe technology that the company hopes will be used by data-hungry athletes and security-conscious corporate drones alike.
The idea is to create a new kind of shoe, known as Footware, a component-based shoe format "so revolutionary that every groundstrike is put through a process." The shoe also records your particular gait which can be transmitted by BlueTooth to a cell phone or PDA, letting you log in to your email account or address book. The company says the shoes can also be used in place of access control cards at offices.
In short, the shoes will announce the man.
THREAT LEVEL applauds the audacious attempt to overturn two industries at once and relishes the opportunity to stop taking baby steps and FINALLY begin striding purposefully towards living in the future.
