Is this for real?
Why risk a repetitive stress injury and hearing loss by lugging one of those huge old boom boxes around on your shoulder, when you can irritate people on public transit by blasting your shitty music through your shoes?
Geekologie points out that a CD won’t read in a moving shoe, but I have to disagree. I think it will move just enough to play while skipping constantly, ensuring an enraging cacophony.
Wired posted a while back about a neat new invention. These golden platform shoes could be the wave of the future for streetwalker safety:
The shoes have a built in audible alarm to scare off attackers, and when the alarm is triggered, the prostitute’s position is transmitted to either the police (in places where prostitution is legal) or to sex worker’s rights groups.
While this is a neat idea, I think that the sex workers who are most at risk of on-the-job violence are probably the same ones who wouldn’t be able to afford shiny gold GPS gadget shoes. Plus, if you have to get your hand to the big lit up buttons on the shoes to trigger the alarm or GPS, you might be outta luck sometimes. But still, it’s an interesting idea, and at the very least should stimulate some much needed dialogue on safety conditions for sex workers.
