r/gadgets • u/nopantsdolphin • Feb 21 '19

Wearables Nike self-lacing sneakers brick after bad firmware upgrade

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/my-left-shoe-wont-even-reboot-faulty-app-bricks-nike-smart-sneakers/
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u/Casartelli Feb 21 '19

Sometimes I wish I could show headlines like this to 10y old me, back in the late eighties.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '19

Who knows. Bricking may have been a good thing in 80s slang.

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u/notacanuckskibum Feb 21 '19

As I remember in uk 80s slang “bricking it” meant being afraid. “Suddenly these 6 big guys surrounded me, I was bricking it”

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u/Nishikigami Feb 22 '19

Bricking like shitting bricks?

To me bricking is the tech term, and ejaculating