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AmateurPilgrim
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For those of you who don't know there was a big uproar in the sneaker head community today as its the Day Marty McFly returns to the future and puts on those future nike shoes called 'air mags'. In celebration of this day Nike announced that it had indeed created an updated version of the air mag now with the power laces that we saw back in the 1989 film. Power laces is a lacing system in which the shoe feels the weight, pressure areas, and length of your foot when you put them on, it then estimates the dimensions of your foot and then tightens by itself to your foot. Given the tall and slender design of the shoe I immediately thought of ski boots. In theory a mag ski boot that is loose and super easy to put on and then once on tightens by itself to your foot. I thought the prospect was cool, would you like to see this technology expand to skiing, if so how much would you consider paying for such a boot?
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Oct 21 2015 11:06PM
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S.J.W
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Or just go to the bootfitter and get your boots punched out/ dialed in for your foot needs. Plus you're forgetting that a sneaker is much easier to mold on the fly than a ski boot with hard plastic.
Oct 21 2015 11:12PM
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YoungGun.
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Tying shoes is the most physically demanding thing that a lot of Americans do during any given day.
Oct 21 2015 11:15PM
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onenerdykid
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Certainly a good idea, I mean who wouldn't want a shoe or boot that fits perfectly, instantly?

But you're definitely more than a few years out on that technology hitting the injection molded plastic world.
Oct 22 2015 8:07AM
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elcornholio
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I'd like boots that buckle on their own.
Oct 22 2015 8:40AM
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gotti
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onenerdykidCertainly a good idea, I mean who wouldn't want a shoe or boot that fits perfectly, instantly?

But you're definitely more than a few years out on that technology hitting the injection molded plastic world.


I feel like it really wouldnt be that hard to engineer a boot that just puts your foot in a hard plastic shell and then has little bands that tighten a liner around you foot that is supported by the shell or something
Oct 22 2015 9:41AM
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onenerdykid
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KansasJibI feel like it really wouldnt be that hard to engineer a boot that just puts your foot in a hard plastic shell and then has little bands that tighten a liner around you foot that is supported by the shell or something


Oct 22 2015 10:11AM
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S.J.W
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KansasJibI feel like it really wouldnt be that hard to engineer a boot that just puts your foot in a hard plastic shell and then has little bands that tighten a liner around you foot that is supported by the shell or something


You do realise you're talking to the boot designer for Atomic right?
Oct 22 2015 10:40AM
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gotti
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S.J.WYou do realise you're talking to the boot designer for Atomic right?


no. no i did not. Ill show myself the door...
Oct 22 2015 12:16PM
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Fistsofham
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Nordica boots are the best. Try on the hot rod 85 its orgasmically comfy
Oct 22 2015 12:20PM
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