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Can I turn my regular trainers into smart trainers?
A Well, it’s probably easier to add smarts to your shoes than it is to find a pair of kicks with brains built in. The plug-in sneaker market basically consists of party-only AliExpress light-up stompers and the Nike Adapt and Puma Fi, two sets of self-lacing shoes that don’t seem to have lasted long past a brief 2019 revival fad. Okay, that’s not entirely true. Under Armor has made the actually-smart HOVR Phantom shoes and apparently named them after a specific kind of ghost, and smaller companies are trying every ounce of their luck in the market. But they shouldn’t. You know why? Shoes don’t
