What sets the foundation for all of our company’s digital applications is the development of footwear as an information tool, a tool that is always generating movement and dynamic data via your gait. Not only will this shoe system persistently produce information from your gait, it will be a product that acts as an interface between you and your immediate environment; examples being rocky terrain, stairs, edges, slopes, your entire ground and more, in other words, your whole ambient terrain.
There have been previous inroads in the the idea of a shoe transferring gait information; notable among them the Nike + ipod insert that delivers running and aerobic info. Others have followed, but no technology aligns its vision with our own: the idea of a shoe that delivers gait and movement information at multiple levels. Our system’s potential applications can be used to solve real technological and usability problems in everything from pure and applied research to health care and biometrics.
When a shoe can be seen as an integral part of a digital system, relaying information that can be used for analysis, identity and location, there is then a deep connection between the human and digital worlds that they are interacting with. This new level of association will allow for multiple uses of the new footware as an information tool. I’d like to note that our footware will allow for energy harvesting as well, which means all of the shoe’s digital expressions have the potential to be self-powered.
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