iHLN After the house, the locks and the lighting is well possible that our shoes will soon also be ‘smart’. The South Korean techgigant Samsung has a patent filed for smart sneakers.
The patents were only recently assigned by the Korean patent office and show two different types of running shoes with sensors on the back. Unfortunately, from the description of the patent is not much, though there are a number of images to see. In the first model, it seems that the smart technology must be activated by a lip from the shoe to pull, while the shoe on the second image a plastic lid.
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Samsung used the term ‘smart running shoes ” and worked previously at smart golf shoes. To what extent are the shoes then also intelligent would be, still remains a coffee grounds to look – although it seems likely that they in addition to the number of steps also would be able to say about your running performance and attitude. The chance is also big that Samsung this technology would want to use it in conjunction with a shoe brand.
Other opportunities are there for example in the measurement of the heart rate, which already is built into many technologies. According to rumors, the new AirPods of Apple ‘biometric’ scanners, which are all also introduced to keep track of.
Smarthome
The ‘smart’, creating all sorts of home – garden – and kitchen appliances is a trend. Not only the lighting, and tvs are slim, thermostats, smoke detectors and even roller blinds. That usually means that the device is connected to the internet and using an app to control it.
