you're at the airport and you get the sudden urge to punch someone in the back
of the head why because you're on that awesome people mover conveyor belt thing
that lets you walk like freaking The Flash but someone on there standing
still not walking don't you understand this is your chance
to have super powers well now you don't need to go to the airport or be around
other people for that you can wear these the shift moonwalkers basically shoes
that let you walk really fast sounds stupid or amazing I'm guessing it's
gonna be a bit of both first of all these are heavy they're over four pounds each they basically just look like if
Linus was a Transformer
this is his final form we got a bunch of Wheels here in weird shapes and I'm
supposed to be able to put these on and just walk like normal and they'll speed
me up up to seven miles per hour which is about 11.265 kilometers an hour so if
you want to go slower you walk slow more slowly if you want to go faster you walk
more fastly it's just as easy as that apparently you can even go up and down
stairs if you do a little trick with the adjuster control so we're gonna try it
out and hopefully I don't die okay first things first
open them up oh my God is that just glue these are very engineering samply you
can see there's a lot of wear marks on them already I just want to get it on
I'm going to assess the quality of the velcro that's Velcro and there's a lot of it it
goes it actually spans the whole the whole thing so that's that's pretty good
it really looks like this will fit I want to say up to like
very large sizes but maybe not too small yeah I'm like a 10. that's pretty much
the exact envelope of my my foot oh my gosh these are chunky okay
I feel pretty secure in that and now that my foot's on the ground I
actually can't roll it back and forth it doesn't it doesn't want are you down
there yeah it doesn't really want to I'm like forcing the servos if I do that
because they're turned off I actually need to turn them on on the back you can see there's a power button and behind
this weatherproof little door a USBC charging port and you've got this on the
back of both shoes shoes what are they
I'm wearing shoes I'm definitely not wearing two pairs of shoes oh you can
see that it articulates here so that's gonna help you walk normally oh check
that out so you don't actually have to adjust the velcro every time there's
also this quick release uh thing kind of like when you're wearing skis there's
also a magnet involved in here kind of confusing so you can just pull that
that when you oh and it's supposed to just click right back in that's pretty
smart I feel like this is a bad way to put these on because my foot has
probably shifted in a weird way here the first thing I'm noticing which I love is
that these have made me at least an inch taller uh now I don't know if I was
supposed to turn them on before or now but it's kind of awkward oh hold on look
at that I can lift this this heel so it's actually not that awkward to kind
of take a knee click okay there's actually haptic
feedback happening right now it's pulsing for some reason I'm just gonna
walk towards these stairs I don't think
these are functioning right now they're not rolling no it still appears
to be locked so what's that other gesture is something like that oh now
it's green oh they're going
okay oh this is so awkward it's on it's
kind of on and off get the hang of this now do I look as stupid as they feel they
look pretty it looks pretty pretty silly but you can't keep up I'm flying oh I
see I feel like they're actually going now the sensation of speed isn't there
which is a shame because I like the sensation of speed I had on one of those
people movers oh they're screaming they
are screaming now whoa these things are straight up moving me
there's definitely a lag effect like this is all me
and then they ramp up you're pretty mobile still
what if I actually jog
I don't think they're meant for this this is pretty hard
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heel to put these into locked wheel stair mode and
try not to die
so did I do it I sure hope so
oh yeah you are not very agile with these on
and they're loud
what's up losers
oh you fly they take a bit to get going
I don't think I can even really get going in this office setting is too it's
too small you need like a real Runway
dude this is the quietest they get
let these babies fly
oh my God
they stop in three and a half feet apparently
on a dry surface let's see
my toe is under the counter right now this is my demise right here this is how
it ends oh God they're not even on stair mode
who's had sex before
when they kick into their highest gear they're fully carrying you and you can
actually start walking more lackadaisically while just ripping you
work at a mall or you're at CES like a
giant trade show where you're just gonna have to be running back and forth all day and you're gonna get 20 000 steps in
these would have been great actually now watch this downhill
they support up to 10 degrees of slope
which doesn't sound like very much but I felt really supportive because it's like
a regenerative braking on an electric car here comes the slope
no problem very smooth
yeah I got a quick turn here just zip over this way
it's weird they're like between shoes and rollerblades I'm gonna jump off this
they did not like that the light's still green but they're not rolling something
is wrong oh they're blinking red
are they dying these are quite fast I have so many thoughts number one
will you wear these to do like a half
hour hour walk to work how much do you value your time instead of walking your
dog for an hour you're walking dog for 45 minutes dog goes farther here's what
you're not gonna do though you're not gonna walk to the office and continue wearing them in the office at all like
they're too clunky and heavy aside from looking stupid
you look stupid you want your colleagues to respect you uh and they're also just
very loud on the floor they're louder than the most obnoxious high heel of
shoes for example you would probably annoy other people in the Subway at in
the tube um on the stairs you're just like too slow not as annoying as someone carrying
a bicycle but actually probably even more annoying because you just look like an asshat but I will say that you can
get around I'm sweating my feet are sweating they're very heavy to pick up
your gate like I feel like your feet would get stronger just to pick these
things up every step I think that's part of the reason I ended up being almost
like a roller skate because they start to carry you you get momentum and
they're actually driving you forward they gave me a tendency as someone who
used to rollerblade as a kid I ski now I've played hockey a lot of skate and
skate-like activities my tendency was to start skating I don't know if other people who can't skate or don't skate
would have that tendency I'm not saying it's a bad thing but it's just weird because your gate changes over the
course of the usage as you speed up you are no longer walking after you're
starting to skate a bit you feel that the most when you're doing turns because
you do get a thing where you can't just stop at a dime and just go what and turn
around right away like you can if you're walking because you are moving so much
faster and when you're turning like that you tend to turn like your own skin they're pretty loud they're definitely
too loud to use indoors or in an office they have like this loud Whistling noise
this is a product that I wish came with an instruction manual
uh because I don't know what the different lights mean you know what some
audio feedback would be nice when I'm turning them on and stuff I can't necessarily see the lights it'd be nice
if it just said powered on or when I switch modes if it said stair mode or
something that would be helpful the range is seven miles or again like 11k
that doesn't seem like that much range honestly
I would probably only get these if my walk to work is
5K or more I don't know I feel like I
want a little more range but then again that means bigger batteries and that
means heavier so there's definitely some kind of calculus they have to do there
to find the like sweet spot do I want these to be a thing in a perfect world
maybe not but in the world we live in I think I prefer a city dominated by these
people than maybe electric unicycles
they're way more low profile than that and they fit into existing
infrastructure a little bit better than that although if I was on a sidewalk
with these I don't think I would be comfortable they they do ramp down in speed quickly
enough that when you inevitably walk up to somebody who's going slowly I don't
think you're on risk of running them over but you would be annoying everybody
and scaring people when they hear you coming that would push me into like the
bike lane or the curb where I'm way too slow for everything that's in that lane
so there's probably an ideal commute for these that isn't most people's commute
the other thing that's cool about them is that you can in theory switch modes
in terms of walking to escalator to
Subway to walking again to getting into an Uber honestly yeah they're fourteen
hundred dollars that is crazy really crazy I could see like for the
experiment that these things are maybe you like risk it for 200 300 but 1400 is
like you're really betting the farm when things I don't know they accept up to 65
watts of power by a USB type-c and they
are meant to last an hour and a half so
I think there's a perfect customer for these I think it's very few people in
the world but if these get better I mean I could see them getting normalized for
certain occupations like if you're gonna make more money because you have these then get them maybe if I'm an airline
I'm an airport I want my employees at the airport to work more efficiently and
instead of just lollygagging down the tarmac I give them these because not
everyone gets to ride in those cute little trucks maybe I do that and maybe
they proliferate in industry first and then consumers later I don't know
they're very cool and I respect the company for going for it and trying to
bestow upon the world this Innovation I think the social factor is the biggest
impedance to them they're just they're kind of weird they're very eyebrow
raising but who knows what happens in 10 years in 10 years Lions kids could be
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