The Code M shoe has finally been released, after being announced at CES 2006, and maybe the idea is crazy enough to find an audience. It’s a high-top court shoe that comes in three men’s styles so far: all-white, all-black, and a tan/brown combo. The right shoe has a 128MB MP3 player embedded in the sole with playback controls on the tongue. Both shoes have speakers built in, or you can wirelessly send your music to a pair of included headphones. It’s a novel idea, but, as we found in our testing, the Code M isn’t a strong performer.
Besides the shoes and the headphones, you get a USB 1.1 cable with three mini-USB heads, which lets you connect your shoes and headphones all at once. Plug the cable into your computer or use the included power adapter to plug it into an outlet. The right shoe, which holds the MP3 player, mounts to any Macintosh or Windows computer; you add tracks by dragging and dropping. You won’t add many, though: we filled it up with between 31 and 37 tracks. Only MP3s work, despite the site’s claim to work with iTunes downloads.
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