Rambler Twitter Sneakers Tweet Every Step You Take (PHOTOS)

*See pictures below*

Take your Twitter addiction to the next level with sneakers that will tweet each and every step you take.

The creators of the Rambler Twitter sneakers at Popkalab explain how the concept shoes work:

Rambler are a pair of sneakers that use the Twitter platform to literally microblog every step you take. [...] A sensor embedded under the sole detects when the wearer is walking. This information is sent via Bluetooth to a mobile phone that makes the postings on Twitter. When the sensor detects a certain amount of pressure, the word "step" is posted. For the other moments the "." symbol is posted. Following these postings one can know if the wearer is walking or not and also predict his speed.

The sneakers are intended to criticize the "massive amount of useless information that is spread over [Twitter]" by "posting literally every step you take in real life."

Here's an example of what Rambler will tweet:

But serious Twitter users might like the device--what's your take?

Follow Rambler's steps on Twitter at RamblerShoes and check out more tweeting objects, including the Twoddler toy for toddlers and the tweeting bathroom scale.

See pictures of the sneakers below:

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Comments

[Bil-Zai]

11:48 AM on 02/09/2010

taptaptaptaptaptaptaptap

[Cryostatic]

09:18 AM on 02/09/2010

"The sneakers are intended to criticize the "massive amount of useless information that is spread over [Twitter]" by "posting literally every step you take in real life."

Read the article before you smash this product as being incredibly useless. It's designed to be that way.

That's the point.

[Adam Bomb]

03:52 AM on 02/09/2010

I find it amusing that a number of decently educated people had to all agree that this was a good idea.

[EtotheMcG]

12:44 AM on 02/09/2010

I think that these would be apt revenge for a lot of the people that I used to follow...but they'd probably delete me without ever realizing that I was mocking them.

Then again, the over-tweeting actually disgusted me to the point that I pretty much stopped using the site anyway; it ultimately helped me reaffirm just how little I care about what most people are doing or thinking or feeling.

Thank you, twitter, for further entrenching my disgust with humankind.

[cjk002]

11:02 PM on 02/08/2010

This is one occasion where I hope the rantings of the paranoid conspiracy theorists about the government using your personal information to come and get you are true.

It reminds me of how popular those sneakers with the lights in them that blinked every time you take a step were back in the 90's - until the police started catching fleeing criminals with them.

[wonmean]

11:00 PM on 02/08/2010

Twitter condom?

Twitter vibrator?

Seriously, we don't need to know.

[jsgaetano]

09:42 PM on 02/08/2010

They should make Twitter Pants so everyone can watch us sitting on our asses all day.

[Peyton Farquhar]

09:33 PM on 02/08/2010

LMAO. Introducing the new coke. WTF.

[DavidWyld]

08:34 PM on 02/08/2010

OK, as a former marathon runner (but one who can still run a good 6-8 miles on occasion), this is gonna make for some very boring and repetitive tweets. Combine this with GPS, and you've got some exciting (and potentially privacy - not tom mention job and marriage-wrecking) stuff - but don't think this is the killer app with "tap, tap, tap...."

David

[San Juan Wolf]

05:39 PM on 02/08/2010

um. why? this is worse than the jean sweat pants

[Jeff Yablon]

03:56 PM on 02/08/2010

Tweeting Sneakers? REALLY?

Not sure this is any more or less ridiculous than the Twitter-enabled scale that tells the world what you weigh every time you step on it (I wish I was kidding; I'm not . . . see @Jason's Twitter account for evidence).

But I sure don't know why anyone cares at this level. I'm already rethinking the validity of me allowing 4square to tweet all my check-ins . . . oh, and why I use 4square to begin with . . . which is only as an experiement in my case but clearly something else for many others.

Oy, as we say here in NYC . . .

Jeff Yablon
http://answerguy.com"
http://twitter.com/virtualvip

[wilray]

03:02 PM on 02/08/2010

A tweeter used to be a type of loudspeaker that went along with your woofer. Now it's a type of footwear. The times they are a changin'.

[WasteNJ]

01:49 PM on 02/08/2010

That is an incredibly dumb use of the technology. Why not incorporate a GPS into the shoe and have it tweet your location when it changes? That would make more sense for businesses, say like a courier service or some type of field service business..

[omobob]

11:41 AM on 02/08/2010

tap tap........tap....tap..tap................tap tap...tap?

[Cryostatic]

11:21 AM on 02/08/2010

The sad part, is there are people out there who would buy these because of the tweeting steps, not even realizing the criticism of Twitter that inspired them.