Adidas 1 Hits The Stores Today

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Mar 18th 2005 at 12:56PM

Our older sibling blog, Engadget first reported about the Adidas 1 way back in May of last year but it has taken a while for the shoe to actually hit the market. Today the shoes are finally in stores. The Adidas 1 $250 running shoe features a microprocessor and a motorized cable system to automatically adjust cushioning depending on how hard you run. Like the iPod (which everyone seems to be comparing the shoes to) the Adidas 1 has battery issues but thelithium batteries in the shoes are replaceable and the chip shuts itself off if the runner is just walking for over 10 minutes. Since runners usually replace their shoes every 500 miles, it would seem to make more sense to have a processor that was transferable from pair to pair. Also the shoes have gold accents. Did we learn nothing from the iPod gold mini? The Flash-heavy Adidas one website has a list of where you can find these high test kicks.

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