Technology in footwear

 In the late 1960s Marion Franklin Rudy created a prototype of an air bag that was supposed to be put on in the heel of a shoe, in 1978 this invention was called Nike Air. Since then many people started to try to make footwear more comfortable or innovative. In 2010 a basketball shoe made by a brand called APL featured a spring underneath the ball of the foot which increased the vertical leap of a player by almost 9cm, because of that they were banned by the NBA very quickly. In 2011 Nike released a replica of the shoes shown in "Back to the Future" - the Nike Air Mag. Their laces were swapped with a self lacing mechanism just like in the movie. They were limited to 150 pairs and nowadays can sell for as much as 10 thosand dollars. In 2019 there was a controversy about another shoe made by Nike - the Nike Vaporfly. It was a running shoe that had specially made foam for the lower part of the shoe and had three carbon fiber plates in it to make it more springy. By wearing them a Kenian runner Eliud Kipchoge broke a record by running a whole marathon in under two hours. That record almost resulted in a ban for this shoe but it was later remade and met the new running standards. Shoes can have different technologies in them like being made of waterproof material, being 3D printed or be made out of reused materials and the technology in them might become even better in the future.

APL basketball shoe: https://spy.com/articles/gear/style/apl-superfuture-banned-basketball-shoes-1202726246/

Nike Air Mag: https://www.sneakerfreaker.com/features/10-years-on-a-look-back-at-the-nike-air-mag-s-long-awaited-2011-release

Nike Air: https://news.nike.com/news/history-of-nike-air

Nike Vaporfly: https://www.dezeen.com/2020/02/03/nike-vaporfly-ban-tokyo-2020-olympics/

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  1. englishdiary26 kwietnia 2022 11:34

    This is the kind of old-school technology care for: no chips, no electronics an yet it improves people's lives.

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