Smart Insoles...wat?
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Salted Smart Insole Review
There is a lot of cool gear in the golf equipment world that doesn’t always fit neatly into Most Wanted Tests or Buyer’s Guides. You still
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@Benjamin-Hall I can see actual medical uses of those. One's gait affects how bone is created and destroyed, especially around joints like knees and hips, and so there's interest in doing something about it to moderate or reverse some forms of arthritis. Being able to work out exactly how a person stands and walks (without using high-intensity X-rays) is a critical component of that.
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@dkf I'm inclined to agree that it's not without merit. Unfortunately then that the thing is let down by... wait for it... oh no, it's the moderrn sopftwahr
The concept as a whole is top notch but the execution of the app has room for improvement. Our initial trials ran into connection issues, crashes and replays failing to play back properly.
:womp-wah:
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I'm not a golfist but this seems like it might be useful if I was one.
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@loopback0 said in Smart Insoles...wat?:
I'm not a golfist but this seems like it might be useful if I was one.
They might be useful if I did something utterly useless. Um...
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@Benjamin-Hall having RTFA (
) they make a lot of sense. That's not something that would be easy to diagnose from watching. Having said that, I think I have many more things to work on in my game before I get to that level.
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@boomzilla said in Smart Insoles...wat?:
@Benjamin-Hall having RTFA (
) they make a lot of sense. That's not something that would be easy to diagnose from watching. Having said that, I think I have many more things to work on in my game before I get to that level.I think it was mostly the image of having to charge the insoles. And having wirelessly-connected insoles at all.
The actual function seems rational (if you care about golf), but it's the principle of the thing.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Smart Insoles...wat?:
rational (if you care about golf)
Your fallacy is ... using the words "rational" and "golf" in the same sentence.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Smart Insoles...wat?:
I think it was mostly the image of having to charge the insoles.
Really. Why couldn't they have designed it to self charge! I'm sure that must be possible with all those pressure cycles going to waste... (hey, I do software, not hardware!)
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I'm actually somewhat interested in these if I could use the data. Knowing that I was standing on the balls of my foot instead of driving through my heels for squatting and vice versa for running would have saved me a lot of soreness and heartache about five years ago.
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Not sure how I feel about having a battery in the soles inside of a shoe - seems like it would be exposed to quite a few things batteries normally dislike. On the other hand, the whole thing is probably quite low-power, so maybe that's not an issue. But, as others have said, I can see how these could be useful (I don't golf, but there are plenty of places where a proper pose etc is helpful).
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@cvi Batteries in shoes have been around for a long time. Remember when all the cool kids were briefly wearing shoes that had flashing LED lights built in?
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Smart Insoles...wat?:
when all the cool kids were briefly wearing shoes that had flashing LED lights built in?
Literally yesterday not sure if that makes me
or 
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@Luhmann But were those kids cool or not?
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Smart Insoles...wat?:
@cvi Batteries in shoes have been around for a long time. Remember when all the cool kids were briefly wearing shoes that had flashing LED lights built in?
This one time I was a summer camp counsellor and there was a girl ... who had such shoes. She was called Meghan, which was a very uncommon name in France (still is, but at least more people know that it exists nowadays). But everyone in France was very familiar with another thing called "Megane" (pronounced the same way) that also has red lights on the back:
So we took to jokingly calling that girl "Renault."
(not in public though, we were young and stupid but not to the point of not realising that she probably heard that joke often enough to be sick of it)
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@remi said in Smart Insoles...wat?:
This one time I was a summer camp counsellor and there was a girl ... who had such shoes. She was called Meghan, which was a very uncommon name in France (still is, but at least more people know that it exists nowadays). But everyone in France was very familiar with another thing called "Megane" (pronounced the same way) that also has red lights on the back:
Ah yes, the Welsh car as we used to call it in my family. And the pronunciation's different (stress is on the first syllable for the woman's name, second syllable for the car name).
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@dkf said in Smart Insoles...wat?:
And the pronunciation's different
Not in french, which is what matters for my story...
(I'm not even sure how the girl's name was written... it might very well have been the same as the car, although if that was the case I would probably have remembered that additional tidbit)
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@dkf said in Smart Insoles...wat?:
@Luhmann But were those kids cool or not?
Probably. Around here, at least, the Autumn weather has turned decidedly chilly.
