The common problem with shoes is that, most of them don’t have in-built GPS. How are we supposed to find our way home each day? What if we’re not good with details? Or we don’t have a maps application on our phones…
Well, a UK artist, a shoe maker and a technologist have put their heads together to overcome this industrial-scale oversight, by recreating the very shoe that Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz made famous with the click of her heels. Using in-built GPS and LEDs, and some other wireless tech to allow the shoes to communicate between themselves, these shoes will guide their wearer home in style – provided they’ve pre-programmed their postcode of course… [Watch].
It’s all a good bit of fun, of course; another development in the world of wearable technology. Practically speaking though, we’d not give up the day jobs for this one just yet…
