Where's my X?

[giblets]

The sock industry would soon go bankrupt from people not needing new socks. Thousands of sock jobs would be lost.

[BeBMan]

Well I guess that socks /bad

[Lorizael]

Inspired by experience: we also need some new socks technology. I'm tired of throwing away a pair of socks because only one has a hole.

Of course one could buy always the same type of socks and hope you can get full pairs of the remaining ones without holes. But it would be cooler to have either self-repairing socks or something that does not get holes in the first place, at least not for a longer period of time.

Wait wait wait, why do you throw away a sock because it has a hole in it?

[giblets]

IMHO it's annoying when part of your foot is touching your shoe.

[BeBMan]

Wait wait wait, why do you throw away a sock because it has a hole in it?

I do wait until they're big enough. Tiny holes are ok-ish, but when they cross my red line for sock-hole-sizes they're toast

In the future there could be socks that auto-establish a force field when there's a hole. We just need to make sure the whole thing can be miniaturized enough

[loinburger]

Just buy the same kind of sock so you can mix and match - makes doing laundry a helluva lot easier too

[giblets]

Just wear socks that don't match, who's going to know?

[Aeson]

Flip flops.

[Proteus_MST]

Flip flops.

The biggest crime against humanity fashion industry ever commited

[Aeson]

If you wear socks with them you can get revenge by committing the greatest atrocity against fashion! Flip flops play both sides.