Great work! Congrats and thanks for sharing

and we still promote heel striking because why not ignore evolutionary benefits

Mit is most high giving package.

Seems cool for "first gear" running but what if you want to go fast? Wonder how the pattern will work when you go into "second grear" and run with the toes/pads of your feet, like how you see the Olympians run. You never touch your heal on the ground when you go fast

Amazing design!

🤔 Hmm, and how do you get rid of the stones, dirt and mud that inevitably get into the grid structure when you run outdoors?

@ahmadshafiqzia2087

5 ай бұрын

you can have insides with a hollow infill but the outer walls with a full infill, but that would definitely affect the performance.

@user-bl4oq7fd8d

5 ай бұрын

Put an outside layer on the 3d printed foam that is printed as well, make the 3d printed outside structure a little thinner to compensate for the extra material. That obviously doesn't look as cool but as they said: This is supposed to be a novel, cool looking shoe, there is nothing stopping this design from being more practical and less novel.

@Mede_N

5 ай бұрын

@@user-bl4oq7fd8d well, if you add an outer layer, there are two things that could happen: 1) If the layer is airtight, the shoe will behave differently, 2) If the layer isn't airtight, we'll run into the same issues I mentioned in my original comment. Or am I missing something?

@ingusmant

5 ай бұрын

You print another one, duh! /S

@jareknowak8712

5 ай бұрын

This will come out in studies scheduled for the next decade :)

The tough position of creating the “best shoe” is that some humans use better biomechanics than others, and you can design a shoe for an athlete who has amazing biomechanics to complement that movement pattern, but the average person has a completely different gait, one of several deviations. Now here's the real tough problem. The average engineer just wants to fix the problem by giving them the appropriate technology. However, there's a multitude of options. Ideally, the individual would want to rehabilitate their movement and slowly transition to a normal shoe, unless for some reason they physically cannot and need some variant of assistance due to an anomaly. But on the other side, most individuals don't care or have time to care and will continue the same deviated gait. So you can print a shoe for this deviated pattern. However, over time, they will probably end up in a worse state of deterioration, and you will need updated shoes to continue to compensate for their deviated gait that has been unaddressed from a position of their own rehabilitation of their personal bio mechanical patterns. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but this is why it’s so important for interdisciplinary perspectives. To presume we can just print the best shoe for humans is not fully approaching the complexity of the issue, and the many disciplines that can contribute to understanding the totality of this dilemma.

Adidas already made this shoe called the Adidas Alphaedge 4d. I owned a pair. These soles are heavy af.

So is there any STL files or what?

It's very cool.. but a human foot consist of many individual bones. The human foot bends and molds itself in a dynamic way. Does the rigid red foot-analogue in testing compare to the real human foot?

@spacerabbit1619

5 ай бұрын

Agreed, I doubt it does something beyond looking fancy.

hopefully there will be more awareness around "barefoot" running in the future, we don't need this. less is more when it comes to shoes.

This is amazing! I hope to see this to be used by many in the near future!

More surface area for solar rays to breakdown the material

@lbgstzockt8493

5 ай бұрын

I have found them to be very resilient, the sole has barely aged in the five years I have worn mine.

I'm Rwandan and real need to work with you

But these end up in the landfills so much quicker since thet tear so easily

Why is the barefoot shoe design not used for this!?

That heel to toe drop is making me cringe.

Consider, all toes are not created equal. Ideally, for optimal power transference we push harder with the big toes.

the pattern and density of the lattice structure appears to be the same throughout the entire length of the sole. definitely not endgame technology

Imagine running through mud in these...

I think it is already used in Puma MTRX, shoes made for "Porsche Design".

@longsleevethong1457

5 ай бұрын

Adidas alphaedge 4d too

It looks similar to the foam my Granmother used in the shower tray.

Nike is already using 3D printed material in some of their select shoes. But what would be the Cost for personalized running shoes? I love MIT!!

How much mud can you pack in those holes?

@wellthi

5 ай бұрын

designed by lab scientists

This is amazing, i see a feature where people will 3d print shoes at home and wear😁😂🔥

@longsleevethong1457

5 ай бұрын

Look up the adidas alphaedge 4d

But how do you mass produce 3D printed shoes? 🤔

@spermwater

5 ай бұрын

It begins with 3D printing the 3D printers, while they 3D print the shoes

@lbgstzockt8493

5 ай бұрын

With 3d print farms. Adidas has been selling these shoes for years, so it must be possible.

Still not defining perform their best - addressing what a tuned lattice structure correlates to in terms of human locomotion. Without the empathy, footwear companies are missing the point of an amazing technology entirely.

Mud will love those empty spaces

So, um, basically the same functionality as a cork insole. Hm. Ok.

need those for my horse

Cool. But those prescription shoes are ugly.

I am preparing for jee...but I want MIT...

Designing shoes for heel striking 🤢 running. This is just wrong

Cool, now people will invent the lesser quality of it and mass production will ruin why we invent it in the first place as always be. xd

Might be the best form factor for performance, but it is the ugliest.

Innovative no just another PR stunt

and we still promote heel striking because why not ignore evolutionary benefits