Samsung is now making shoes: You’ll want them, but you likely can’t have them
With the Samsung Shortcut Sneaker, you can bust a move to make a call. But only six of you can have a pair!
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- The Samsung Shortcut Sneakers can trigger smartphone actions using sensors, with feet movement.
- Only six pairs will exist.
- The Shortcut Sneakers support six different movements, which can be linked to six different smartphone actions.
Have you ever wanted to start a call by doing a moonwalk? Well, apparently, some of you might be able to, if you’re really, really lucky. Never in my life did I think I would see smart shoes, let alone ones from Samsung. Enter the Samsung Shortcut Sneaker, a very interesting and wild project done in collaboration with Cheil Benelux, Elitac Wearables, Bruut Amsterdam, and sneaker designer Roel Van Hoff.
It’s “the sneaker of the future,” and it will do much more than offer a comfortable walk. Samsung installed motion sensors in the soles, allowing each shoe to track its motion and position in relation to the other. According to Samsung, there are five movements you can perform that will trigger five different shortcuts. The available triggers and specific shortcuts aren’t revealed, but Samsung did mention the moonwalk, and the fact that you can use these triggers to make calls or play music. In the promo video, we can also see Roel Van Hoff bumping the shoes twice to call his mother.
