New Delhi, March 22 -- This year, a pair of new shoes from Nike and a pair of glasses from Ray Ban, created in partnership with Meta, have become hot topics for small talk among those who have embraced the active lifestyle. While the new shoes promise to sharpen your focus by pushing all the right buttons (literally), the AI-powered glasses talk to you, listen to you and take photos for you on command. Having used the viral products for a while, here's a definitive low-down that will help you decide if they're truly worth your time and money.

The first thing you need to know about these mules is that they were developed by a new department at Nike called Mind Science-a detail prominently printed on the box. The team spent over a decade o...