Puma brings back 1980s shoe style with amazing updated technology

WHY RELY on your phone or smartwatch to track your steps when you could use a 21st-century rendition of the Puma RSComputer running shoes?

This week, Puma announced that it’s bringing back the “OG” sneaker from 1986. The RS-Computer shoe concept is an intriguing one, considering how technology has evolved since then, and Puma wants to make this pair of trainers an exclusive model.

The original RS-Compter shoes had a custom computer chip built into every heel that would record time, travelling distance, and calories burned and send the results to any Apple IIE or Commodore 64 using a 16-pin cord. Does that sound like a useful piece of tech that we could benefit from today? Puma seems to think so.

Puma brings the original RS-Computer design, but with Bluetooth tech, so you can wirelessly connect them to your smartphone.

To ensure that you still get that 1980s low-bit colour experience, “the app interface uses 8-bit graphics seen on original computer screens and inside the app is an 8bit game.”

Now, if these sneaks are something you’d like to add to your shoe collection or maybe even rely on for your fitness tracking, you better act fast: only 86 will be produced in remembrance of the year that the original pair launched. The price? US$736 (RM3,091) on Puma.com. — Relaxnews