Sat-Nav Waterproof Shoes... yeah, the future is here!

Basq

Avoid looking like a proper tourist in a city you don't know!

Really heavy night on the beer? One too many sambucas and not quite 100% sure on your way home?

You like useless tech and have not a whole lot of money to spend on it?

INTRODUCING.... SMART SHOES....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNnu_lL117A

HI TEC - Men’s Navigator Bluetooth® Guidance Shoe

Available in sizes: UK 6.5, UK 7.5, UK 8.5, UK 10

Works out at about €56 delivered.

Hi-Tec’s new smart shoes are a big step-forward in intuitive navigation. Find your way around any city or navigate the trails hands free without the need of a map or compass.

Simply download the free Letchal app onto your phone, set your destination and connect to your new smart shoes with Bluetooth and just start walking. Inside the shoes sits the Haptic vibratory feedback receptors which vibrate when approaching junctions signalling which way you need to turn. Vibration sequences will also tell you when you have taken a wrong turn.

The technological ingenuity continues in the construction of the shoe with a durable Michelin Outsole for grip, a lightweight XLR8 midsole for feedback and a waterproof Dri-Tec™ upper.

vicwatson

He he totally brilliant, if they could just put hover moters in them aswell.

Yamanoto

"I wasn't deliberately doing laps of the red light district Maureen, my shoes were confused"

Tom Mann Centuria

They look like decent walking shoes for the money, but the reviews of the Android app that makes them super duper are pretty well all crap (well the ones that look genuine)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ducere.lechalapp

Setanter

The theory is great but the fashion stakes will kill it.
Could work with widgets in your pockets, wristbands etc

Skatedude

Great, so now the muggers don't need to find you, They just hack your shoes and make you walk down that dark lane to meet them.

Senna

I can see the compensation case now, "the shoes told me to turn right, they didn't tell me stop for the car that knocked me down" .

GhostyMcGhost

If you put them on the wrong feet your f**ked

tedpan

And I thought Hi-Tec only made cheap Nike knock offs in the 80s and 90s.. wow

degsie

"These shoes were made for hacking, 'n that's what I'm gonna do"


Dum, dum, dum,.....

sunny2004

I bought these for a one legged friend, he was walking around in circles for weeks..

fdevine

Full price is/was crazy. These cannot have sold well if they're available for €50-60

http://www.hi-tec.co.uk/men/footwear/hiking-and-walking-shoes-and-boots/hi-tec-navigator-i-waterproof-mens-bluetooth-guidance-shoe-O006152.html

dingding

Looks like the page has been removed.

joeKel73

Setanter wrote: »

Could work with widgets in your pockets, wristbands etc

Or just your phone... 1 vibrate for left, 2 vibrates for right.

Basq

J o e wrote: »

Setanter wrote: »

Could work with widgets in your pockets, wristbands etc

Or just your phone... 1 vibrate for left, 2 vibrates for right.

Don't go ruining this BA with sound reasonable logic.... we're talking about sat nav shoes here!

patrickSTARR

The title thread pulled me in..... reality sent me away

dingding

Ironically the web page linked can't be found

Not a great start for sat nav shoes.

On a more serious note it looks like they are all gone.