Nike’s auto-lacing shoes – Rufus hinted to us all in 1989

Nike’s looking to make our future a better place with some auto-lacing sneakers. I for one, won’t protest as I still have to recite the following to make it happen:

“You take one lace and make a loop.

Take the other lace and make another bunny ear.

Fold one under the other and there you go!

Tied shoes.”

It looks like Nike filed for the patent in 2009 which shows off an automatic lacing system. The shoes appear to exhibit a charging system/lights, in addition to the lacing component. Now, now, don’t go start jumping up and down just yet…We all know that not all patent applications lead to a real product. BUT I am hoping this one comes to fruition.

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Canadian Motorola Milestone – No FROYO until Q1 2011

When I first laid my greasy, dirty, and often sticky hands on Telus’ (Motorola’s) Milestone, I was the happiest kid on the block. It’s a fantastic phone! It’s quick, responsive, and generally a great over all phone that I tend to use as my “internet device.” aka my mini tablet. Where art thou HP Slate w/Windows 7???? iPad, you can go back to the early 2000′s where you belong.

Motorola recently updated their upgrade timelime to show the latest plans for all of their handsets… the Canadian Milestone was left without a home or a date.

Even though Android 2.2 has been officially released for the Motorola Droid, the Milestone (the same phone people! Although, better.) looks like it won’t be seeing the likes of Frodo…err um Froyo until the first quarter of 2011.

Who wants to root your phone, now?

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