Google’s Latest Invention: A Shoe That Talks

If you were surprised by Google glasses after their hugely successful and still ongoing Android venture, think again. The creators and inventors at Google have still got their thinking caps on. Their latest, a pair of shoes that can talk! Here, you don’t have to input anything. All you have to do is wear the shoes and go about what you want to do. Sensors in the shoes pick up the activity and relay sentences that ate apt to the situation you are in.

How Does It Work

 

The pair of Adidas sneakers that were used to demonstrate the talking shoe concept had a whole load of sensors that it needed to work with. The heart of the system was a custom designed microcontroller that was located on the tongue of the sneakers. The microcontroller controlled the operation of other sensory devices like the accelerometer, gyroscope, pressure sensors, and a few other sensors that worked together to give the shoe a personality.

A speaker on the shoe relayed sentences based on the feedback from the sensors to the microcontroller. For example, if you were sitting and the shoe has a quirky personality, it would relay, ‘I am getting cold, let’s get a move on!’ Impressive, isn’t it?

Just a Concept as of Now

 

When Google displayed this concept of talking shoes, they stressed on the fact that it was only a concept that their inventors were working on. The company’s representatives said time and again that Google has no plans to come into the shoe business and market their talking shoes on a commercial basis.

The sad part about Google’s talking shoes is that it will not be available to the consumers to purchase. However, we can never know how things might pan out. After all, Google is a company and if they decide that this is a million dollar idea, why would they let go of the profits? But as of now, the official word is that it is only a concept.

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