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4.30.2014

Your Shoes Are Sort Of Computers Now

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The Dawn of Semi-Intelligent Footwear
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Sometimes you find yourself in St. Louis. With the need to dance. Or eat toasted ravioli. Or whatever, really. Point is: our award-winning, night-enlightening app, The Next Move, just landed there to help you figure it all out. It’s like having a UD editor in your pocket, but way more comfortable.

To our dear friend, Dr. Scholl:

It’s time to hang it up, sir.

As for everyone else...

Meet Lechal, a Bluetooth-enabled pair of insoles that know where you’re going, how many steps you’re taking and everything else that futuristic insoles should know, available for preorder now.

So they’re putting activity-tracking computers inside of insoles now. You just insert them into your shoes, sync them with a smartphone app and feel a vibration on either foot when your directions call for a turn. That way, you don’t have to look at your phone’s screen or ask for directions or do other human things that humans do.

Now, they’ve also got some activity-tracking shoes. They look like what Usain Bolt would wear in the 2124 Olympics. But since you’re not Usain Bolt and it’s not 2124, we suggest you stick with the insoles.

And then we suggest using them to help count your steps, track your calories and just basically live a more active and technologically informed life than you normally would.

You’re like this close to being an actual robot now.
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4.29.2014

The Future of Coffee According to... Canada

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April 29, 2014
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Finally, a Weird Canadian Coffeemaker
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The Wayne Gretzky of coffeemakers.

No, that’s no good.

The Broken Social Scene of pour-over coffee operations.

Nah, a little too obscure.

The Carly Rae Jep—no. God, no.

Look, here’s a glorious wooden coffeemaker from Canada...

They call it Canadiano, a block of wood that you pour grounds into and then coffee comes out, now available online from our friendly neighbors to the north.

Two possibilities here: either you drink coffee, or you’re wrong. Assuming the former applies, this is most likely for you—it’s just a carved-out block of cherry, walnut, birch or white oak that goes right on top of your cup and makes coffee happen.

Over the years, the various oils will age the block and produce different flavors and characteristics, sort of like a whiskey barrel or a pizza stone.

It’ll go like this. You pour some coffee grounds into the hole. You pour some hot water over them. Two to four minutes pass. Minutes in which that rich aroma of alertness curls up into your olfaction. You get excited. Then you grasp the mug with both hands, lean in for a whiff and stare out the window into a sunny morning.

Congratulations, you’re a Folgers commercial.
 
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