with compasses on them? I looked up some that are advertised for sale now, and none of the ones I saw came with compasses on shoelaces. It seems kind of a stupid place to put a compass--a kid's going to go runing around in them with compasses bouncing around on the shoelaces? It sounds like a question as a result of something Burke might have said---he had boots/shoes with compasses on the laces....and he might have thought of them as "hi-tech(nology)."