Make it a subscription, say it has AI and you can start buying yachtes
Comment on “Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Back in our Business 101 class in university, we were supposed to come up with a new business idea and pitch it. We came up with a self-tying tie. Guess we weren’t too far off lol
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
menemen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Add bonus features already installed on the shoe, but need an extra subscription. Maybe clips to connect them to your bike pedals, but it costs 4.99€/month to actually use that feature.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
The liability for a product that tightens around a neck would make it an untouchable concept for businesses. I could imagine a dystopian future where some big brand like Dickies selling it and when it kills people they claim the fine print very clearly disallows any shirts except for patented self-tying tie constrained collar shirts.
GetKebab@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Haaaaaagh, that’s fuckin excellent. Now Invision a dystopian future where hackers assassinate a corrupt politician by strangulation. Fuck yeah dystopian future.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or there might be a future leader who is a Darth Vader wannabe and creates a system where everyone wears a self-tightening tie and he can gesture at anyone who annoys him to choke them until he stops gesturing.
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 2 months ago
it shouldnt be TOO hard to make it safe: just add a lanyard style breakaway at the back of the next. light tug pops the tie off.
You could make it simply self tighten, saving you one arm movement.
Abnorc@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I think the villain in Law Abiding Citizen killed somebody using a trap tie of some sort.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not a complicated engineering problem to solve though. A weak enough motor wont be able to strangle anything even if its controlling software is hacked and turned to 11.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
For sure, but a large many modern problems which result in fatalities daily are not hard engineering problems to solve.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yea good thing we didn’t follow through lol