So, now that Google Glass is a reality are you ready for the newest Art Copy&Code project? Google introduces the "Talking Shoe", still in it's very early stages the idea is simple: anyone and anything can be a storyteller.
To explore the world of connected objects, Google partnered with artist Zach Lieberman and YesYesNo to create a smart sneaker with personality that talks back and can connect the wearer’s activity to the web. Using an accelerometer, a gyroscope, Bluetooth and some other off the shelf technologies, the Talking Shoe translates the wearer’s movements into funny, motivating and timely commentary. The things it says can be posted to Google+ by the user, sent to real-time ad units, if the user chooses to, and broadcast via onboard speakers. It can talk to the world and to the web. The collected data then gets pushed to a web app on your mobile device and translated in real-time into funny and motivating commentary which then gets pushed to banners and social media, creating new, interesting content in the digital world from something happening live in the physical one...all thanks to your sneakers. Keep them clean! Learn more at Art Copy&Code.