Adidas is touting their Adidas_1 as “the world’s first intelligent shoe.” Based on the guts of these kicks, I tend to agree. The shoes contain a microprocessing unit that uses external sensors to monitor ground conditions and other environmental factors 1,000 times per second and adjust the shoe’s cushioning accordingly. There is also an user interface on the side of the shoe for manually adjusting the tempermant of the cushioning.

The going price for these bad boys is $250 a pair, which is definitely steep, but Adidas goes to great lengths to distinguish these shoes from anything else out there. Even the packaging is unique, as it holds each sneaker snugly in a molded foam insert inside the box.

I might shell out the bucks, if only they could give me a bionic-like jump, roadrunner speed, or download and read my email (in a tinny robot voice, of course).

Technically, these shoes are “0ld n3wz”, but someone finally published some decent pictures (japanese text, but the images are quite nice):
Adidas_1 Photos - page 1
Adidas_1 Photos - page 2
Adidas_1 Photos - page 3
Adidas_1 Photos - page 4

Adidas official site with their flash-o-matic promo:
Adidas_1 Official Site