This is way be­fore Nike +iPod these Puma run­ning shoes were af­fixed with a sort of pe­dome­ter com­puter. The pe­dome­ter could be reset and it worked in a way where it counted up time and dis­tance. All the in­for­ma­tion could then be down­loaded to the game port on the Apple II.

This is so be­fore its time that it’s just stun­ning, i mean in the mid 80s we had nerd watches with cal­cu­la­tors and we had the birth of PC’s and MAC’s but a small pe­dome­ter Puma shoe is just extraordinary.

Allan Lun­dell used these shoes in Santa Cruz, Cal­i­for­nia in the mid 1980s. His words where some­thing like “nothing could get people’s at­ten­tion more than bend­ing down and push­ing a but­ton on your shoes and hear­ing them beep, the de­fin­i­tive nerd”

More hi­gres pic­tures here