High-tech "boots-fast walkers" will show the owner the right direction

In many tales and epics of various nationalities, magic shoes are mentioned that allow their wearer to fly, or at least walk faster than usual. In general, flying shoes are still far away, but you can already speed up your way with smart shoes (yes, not a boot, unfortunately).

The other day the Indian company presented its own version of smart shoes, which allows you to replace fitness bracelets. Each boot (or is it sneakers?) Is equipped with a Bluetooth module, as well as various kinds of sensors and sensors. The wireless communication module allows you to send and receive information in sync with your smartphone, for which a special application has been released. Well, the sensors let you know how many steps were taken, how much distance was traveled, how many calories were burned.
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In addition - the shoes, synchronized via a smartphone with the Google maps map service, show the owner the right direction.

We are not talking about any LED arrows or something else. No, the developers have equipped their product with vibration motors, which work alternately, allowing you to understand where to go. If you need to make a turn to the left, the vibration motor works in the left shoe, and vice versa, if you need to go to the right, the vibration motor in the right shoe works.

As far as you can understand, the Indian company produces not only smart shoes / sneakers, but also no less smart insoles that can be embedded in regular sneakers (the developers promise that such inserts will not interfere). Functions that the finished shoes that the "insoles" are the same: an indication of the correct way to vibration, measuring the distance traveled, counting the number of calories burned per day. Well, a special application can show you the achievement of other people, that is, it is not only smart shoes, but also social, so to speak.



A new model range of smart shoes was named LeChal , the authors of the project are the founders of the startup Ducere, Crispian Lawrence and Enayradh Sharma. Developers believe that their product will help tourists, hunters, athletes and many other categories of people. Among other things, these shoes are useful for people with all sorts of disabilities (well, at least the same sclerosis).

Currently, the authors have already collected 25,000 thousand pre-orders for their shoes, the price of which is about $ 130 per pair. It is quite probable that by April of the next year 100,000 LeChal pairs will be already sold. Of course, the shoes have shortcomings, including the need to recharge the battery and the possible failure of the wireless connection, but these and other problems will be solved as they arrive.

Via indiatimes