Monday, Dec. 29, 1997
Sole of a New Machine
So you're at a party and you meet some cutie whose identifying info you simply must have. Well, if you're both wearing these M.I.T.-designed sneakers, all you have to do is shake hands and, in the digital equivalent of trading business cards, swap phone numbers and other vital stats through a low-level electric current that races along your skin's surface, then onto your partner's: data transfer from one wired heel to another.