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Reader Submitted: ‘Wacky Pack’ Pushes the Simple Act of Tying Shoes Into New Territory

Parents teaching you how to tie your shoe is a vivid image in everyone’s memory. What does it mean to tie a shoe? Why does it need to be tied? What does a shoe need to do to function as a shoe? If all a shoe needs to do is to enclose your foot, how differently can a shoe perform this task?

If, “to tie a shoe” can mean more than its literal phrase, can this mundane action be turned into something more meaningful, versatile or entertaining Can “tying a shoe” dictate how a shoe works, or become a shoe itself? Furthermore, can it alter the user’s experience and behavior? Vice versa, can a user alter a shoe through this channel?