For those who just read the blurb and were wondering why an Olympics 50 years ago mattered to these shoes - they were originally launched for the Munich Olympics.

Have you tried scanning the QR code?

Near field communication - it’s an antenna that sits inside the back case and let’s your phone interact with payment terminals and the like that support it.

You can add your tap and pay card to your phone and tap your phone instead.

Grrr you reminded me that lollipop got rid of the notification ticker.

One of the nicest implementations of notifications and they scrapped it for intrusive heads up.

Back when material design actually felt like ‘material’

☹️ no nfc

From a quick Google:

• It’s in a rain shadow, so no rain for plants to absorb heat
• It’s below sea level - lower you go, the higher air pressure, so it’s drier+hotter
• Surrounded by mountain peaks, the air heats up as it descends into the valley

Possibly OpenTTD?

Same developer but different games, from what I can tell he released Transport Tycoon first, then Locomotion which had ?better graphics and less complexity?

I’ll have to try openloco, I’ve only ever played OpenTTD and it’s pretty good

And the surveillance station in the middle of Australia (pine gap)

And there’s quite a few missing!