Need help determining when it's time for new kicks?
(Credit: Steven Musil/CNET)
Hold the phone -- Apple wants to let you know when it's time to buy your next pair of shoes.
In a recently published patent application, the tech giant has proposed embedding sensors in footwear that would track the wearer's activity and notify them when they were ready for a new pair. The application describes a "Shoe wear-out sensor, body-bar sensing system, unitless activity assessment and associated methods."
The application's summary describes the system thus:
A body bar sensing system for sensing movement of a body bar may be provided. The body bar sensing system may include a housing having a coupling mechanism operative to couple to the body bar, a detector disposed within the housing and operative to sense movement of the body bar when the housing is coupled to the body bar, and a processor operative to determine a number of repetitions of the movement based on the sensed movement.
The summary describes a variety scenarios for the device: In one embodiment, a shoe wear out sensor includes at least one detector for sensing a physical me... [Read more]
by Steven Musil via CNET
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