Puma+
Somewhere in the early eighties Puma released the Puma RS Computer Shoe.
These running shoes were fixed with a pedometer at the heel. By using a big software cable, the data could be downloaded to the game port on the Apple II or Commodore 64. The computer pulls out data from the shoe’s memory, calculating the distance covered, length of run and calories consumed. And even back than the software could display all the data in a graphic form.
And guess what? The Puma RS Computer Shoe was already a copycat of the Adidas Micropacer, the first smart shoe of Adidas. The technology was designed by William Johnson, a British inventor who took his ideas to Adidas in 1981! The tongue of the shoe had a little chip linked to a sensor in the sole of the shoe! All data was shown in an LCD display.
1981 kids!
I guess Nike was the one missing the smart shoe bandwagon…
(via Gillouze le Starlouze)
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