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talking clothes

I'LL tell you what I've always wanted.

A talking shoe. Google, treading carefully into the market, has anticipated my quiet desires and come up trumps.

The shoe, a rather chunky trainer unveiled at the South By Southwest festival in Texas, has a speaker in the tongue and calls feedback to whoever is wearing it to encourage or discourage certain activities. Running – good. Lying on the couch eating chips – bad. Or vice versa, depending on your priorities.

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