Moonwalkers: The World's Fastest Shoes

Re:Moonwalkers: The World's Fastest Shoes by tduberne on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:23PM (#34265106)

Re looking silly, I am not so sure. Only 10 years ago no one would have expected adults to proudly navigate the city on flashy colored elwctric kick scooters, and yet look at any big (european?) city nowadays. Even investment bankers in tailor-made suits move on those abominations as if it was the next lamborghini.

I actually find them quite attractive as a means to access my local train station: easier to take with me than a bike or kick scooter, apparently much safer than rollerblades or skateboard. Just not for that price, but let's give it a few years to see if it takes on.

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Re:Moonwalkers: The World's Fastest Shoes by croes on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:40PM (#34265364)

Wasn't the selfie stick in a book about useless inventions?

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Re:Moonwalkers: The World's Fastest Shoes by pmontra on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:51PM (#34265533)

Not useless but it went extinct in my part of the world. I can't remember when I saw one in Europe. People shot selfies with their arms again. Is it still a thing somewhere else?

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Re:Moonwalkers: The World's Fastest Shoes by asdff on Friday January 06, 2023 @12:01AM (#34271173)

It's a thing in the U.S. still but a lot of places have banned them. Where you do see the selfie stick sometimes is skiing, but I think they are using an actual gopro product for that mostly.

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Re:Moonwalkers: The World's Fastest Shoes by croes on Saturday January 07, 2023 @11:47AM (#34289777)

Found it

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32336808

It was in the book of 101 Un-Useless Japanese Inventions.

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