While the sports company gives up its support for "smart" basketball, Nike offers a software update that corrects its self-knot shoes / Boing Boing

Wilson X was the entrance of the sports manufacturer into the market of smart basketballs, but maintaining the application that made sense of the telemetry of your round balloon equipped with sensors was expensive and stupid, and the Wilson X app is no longerand the "B" in "B-ball" means "brick".

But wait, there is more! If you pay 350 USD for Nike's self-tacking shoes, you've been hit this week when Nike has updated its shoe attachment application, preventing it from associating with the advanced lacing of these shoes. Dynamically adjust their voltage in response to your movement.

The shoes? Also bricks.

The ball is still bouncing, and you can still tie your own shoes, but the sensor sets and the accompanying control infrastructure are gone.

"The app does not go with the left shoe," reads in an article on February 17. "matched with sneakers just after unpacking, then completely crushed after the last update."

Others have encountered a similar problem.

"The application has fewer features than the iOS app, and the first software update of the shoe has generated an error while updating, giving the shoe a good footing," reads. "needs a serious job."

Nike has just made its lace-up shoes by accident [Jack Morse/Mashable]

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