Puma’s self-lacing sneakers come with a touch-sensitive control panel
https://youtu.be/nU-XDVyYqMs Puma’s FI (Fit Intelligence) sneakers are here, and they look slightly different. Where you’d expect the laces to criss-cross on the front sits a…
Shoes
Let’s take a second to appreciate the Coral-colored Alphabounce sneakers
Even though the Alphabounce Instinct released last year, this throwback couldn’t be more time-appropriate given the Alphabounce Instinct’s coral-colored beauty. With an eye-catching combination of…
I could get used to these self-lacing Nike sneakers!
Aside from the convenience brought about by technological advancements, Nike’s HyperAdapt self-lacing shoes aren’t… different. They look exactly like any other regular sneakers, and sort…
YD’s top 10 entries from the #renderweekly shoe challenge
If you’re an industrial designer who hasn’t heard of Render Weekly, stop everything you’re doing and head down to their website to have a look…
Here is what shoes of the future should look like…
What started off as a form exercise for Dewayne Dale resulted in a piece of footwear that looks like no other. The 3D Surprise shoe…
One shoe that fits from childhood to adulthood
It took just one instance in Kenya, in 2007, when Kenton Lee noticed that a little girl in a white dress next to him had…
Innovative Translucent Leather is visually and literally a class apart
Another one for the “new materials” file is Sruli Recht’s translucent leather, made from cow skin. Working for over three years on the Apparition, a…
One day you may be able to 3D print your own Nike shoes
https://youtu.be/RFW35vTTGQI Athlete Eliud Kipchoge won the 2018 London Marathon wearing a pair of Nike VaporFly Elite Flyprint trainers with the world’s first 3D-printed upper. This…
The shoe that turns recycled chewing-gum into rubber outsoles
https://youtu.be/f155BH2MErE Instead of having bubblegum stick to the underside of your shoe, one day the sole of your shoe could be made of the very…
GPS-enabled shoelaces. Yay or Nay?
Any privacy-intruding piece of technology can be pretty controversial because it can be used for good as well as bad (take the entire Facebook clusterf***…
How this Adidas concept shoe redefines design-for-performance
What looks like an incomplete wireframe may just be the most efficiently designed and unique looking running shoe yet. Made for the 40-yard dash, Daniel…
Nike’s shoe box turns pollution into solution
https://youtu.be/P2VzHm6eOOM Nike collaborated with Taiwanese architect and engineer Arthur Huang to redesign the Air Max shoe-box, making it sustainable and responsible. For Arthur, the Nike…