A Designer In Singapore Created A Functional Snes Inside A Wearable Nike Sneaker

Have you ever been roaming astir collecting bananas successful Donkey Kong Country connected nan SNES and thought to yourself, "gee, I wish I could play this crippled connected my shoe." Well designer Gustavo Bonzanini group retired to make this dream a reality. To observe nan 35th day of Super Nintendo's motorboat successful Japan, Bonzanini has created nan AIR SNES, a throwback civilization brace of Nike Air Max 90 sneakers that doubles arsenic a wholly functional SNES console.

"The thought came aft looking astatine collaborations betwixt sneaker brands and video games. I ever asked myself: wouldn’t it beryllium cool if these shoes that look for illustration a video crippled really double arsenic a console?" Bonzanini said successful a property merchandise shared pinch Engadget.

The footwear was created utilizing a Raspberry Pi Zero W moving nan RetroPie emulator, which Bonzanini customized to fresh wrong nan sneaker's tongue. The footwear has artillery capacity for up to 30 minutes of gameplay and sports an integrated HDMI port.

For those pinch nostalgia for old-school show connectors, nan footwear besides has a mini analog converter for RCA connectors. As for controllers, nan footwear is compatible pinch an original SNES gamepad, but you tin besides usage an 8BitDo Mod Kit that connects to nan Raspberry Pi wirelessly complete Bluetooth.

“This creation task was my measurement of celebrating some and pushing nan thought of what sneaker civilization and tech tin go erstwhile they merge," said Bonzanini. Unfortunately for each of america that would prime up a brace of these successful a heartbeat, nan AIR SNES is conscionable a one-time creation to observe 35 years of 1 of nan greatest consoles ever made.