Platform shoes with integrated GameBoys

Over at Boing Boing Gadgets, Joel has the story on platform shoes outfitted with GameBoy Color handhelds.
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fullerenedream

That is the ugliest shoe I have ever seen.
Antiglobalism

Completely and utter useless.
Keir

This is surely designed purely to get on boingboing without going the steampunk route. To win a bet, perhaps.
Antinous

Y’all have never heard of a country called Japan, have you?
Takuan

YAY! Strange shoes contest!
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/6756/strangeshoes25ng2.jpg
Xopher

Antinous 6: You mean the Tasteless Kitsch Islands? Why yes, I believe we have.
JSG

The platform shoes with the live goldfish in the heel of the 21st century.
Takuan

oh you’re not even trying!
http://www.exofires.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/weird_shoes_002_4.jpg
Takuan

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/200/478384880_84a36670d9.jpg
kaiza

@8: this is a similar concept, but much more elegantly executed in my opinion: http://www.virtualshoemuseum.com/vsm/files/65915_EelkoMoorer_Stelt1.jpg

But my vote on weirdest shoe:
http://www.virtualshoemuseum.com/vsm/files/06328_Alexander-Fielden_nailed1.jpg

You can find a whole lot of weird and wonderful shoes at this well organised site: http://www.virtualshoemuseum.com/vsm/index.php