denim

Shoe engineers need to eat, too. I wondered what it was like to work on shoe design all day, every day. Looks like it drives you nuts.

I like the idea of one of these shoes stepping in dog shit, though. It should clean it self off, or maybe alert the wearer of what happened. Oh, how about built-in radar, to detect the dog shit before you step in it? I mean, a 20MHz processor? Granted, they didn't say what kind of processor, so the speed doesn't mean anything. Maybe it's an ARM processor, you think?

I mean, what functionality would you like in your shoes? How about the ability to walk on water? Automatic floatation units that inflate when you step in water up to your ankles or deeper, perhaps. How about wireless networking? You build a soccer ball which emits, and the shoes get ready to kick it when it gets close! Or maybe you can use the shoes as relay units for lower powered communications devices! Yeah: cell phone relays in your shoes.

How the heck do you clean these things, though?

Lights are passe, but how about turn signals? Bicycle riders could use them, and use toe switches to get them to signal, or maybe to type with while on the road. Yeah, morse code with your big toes. Why not? And there's no reason to limit it to bicylers, either. No teacher could tell that you're messaging your buds with your toes. How the messages would display, I'm not sure. Maybe use cell phones for the display?