Lost in Suburbia classic column: If the shoe fits, lose it - Suburbanite |
- Lost in Suburbia classic column: If the shoe fits, lose it - Suburbanite
- AI-powered shoes unlock the secrets of your sole - Science Daily
- Man accused of stealing shoes from outletmall - KGNS.tv
- Donate online to KRQE Cares Shoes for Kids - KRQE News 13
- COMME des GARÇONS HOMME Plus Drops Metal-Plated Oxford Shoes - HYPEBEAST
| Lost in Suburbia classic column: If the shoe fits, lose it - Suburbanite Posted: 18 Mar 2020 06:54 AM PDT "Honey, have you seen my shoes?" asked my husband as he wandered around the family room, peering under furniture. "Which ones?" I responded. "My brown boots." I touched my temple and closed my eyes. "Hmmm. I can see them. Yes, they are coming into focus. They are … under the kitchen table!" My eyes popped open and I smiled. "How do you do that?" he wondered as he walked off to reclaim his missing shoes. "What can I say? It's a gift." "Yeah, well, just make sure you use your powers for good, not evil," he yelled over his shoulder. The question, really, wasn't where were his shoes? The question was, where weren't they? He routinely had a pair of discarded shoes in every room of the house, and for the life of him, could never remember where he had left them. I could. It was hard to miss them. And yet he could walk right by a pair and not see them at all. I realized the issue wasn't his memory. It was that my husband had a massive case of Hysterical Shoe Blindness. I wondered if maybe he'd had some kind of shoe trauma as a young child that caused him to block out the sight of his shoes as an adult. Maybe a freak tornado swept through his house and sucked up all his shoes. Or perhaps a shoe thief snuck into the house and took any shoes that had been left out in the open, leaving my husband utterly shoeless. Whatever had befallen him in his shoe youth, he was now condemned to a life of shoe location issues. Although I sympathized with his problem, I had to admit, it also irked me. When I wasn't tripping over his errant shoes or stubbing my toe on a wayward boot, I was having to help him find his shoes so he would not go off to work in his slippers. Admittedly, I had been known to relocate various family belongings when they were dumped in places they didn't belong. But in my husband's case it really wouldn't matter if I moved his shoes or not. If he couldn't find them where he left them, he wouldn't find them if I put them where they belonged either. "I have a novel idea," I said to him. "Whenever you come home, take off your shoes and leave them by the front door. If you do this everyday, I bet you will be able to find them pretty easily the next time you want to wear them." "OK," he agreed sullenly. For one week, my husband made sure to leave his shoes in the same place at the same time, everyday. By the second week, it seemed to have become a habit and by the third week, he had stopped asking my help in finding his shoes. "Honey, I think we fixed your shoe problem!" I said gleefully. As we celebrated his freedom from Shoe Blindness, I heard a shout from upstairs. "Mom," yelled my son. "Have you seen my sneakers?"  |
| AI-powered shoes unlock the secrets of your sole - Science Daily Posted: 17 Mar 2020 01:47 PM PDT Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have developed an AI-powered, smart insole that instantly turns any shoe into a portable gait-analysis laboratory. The work, reported in January 2020 issue of IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, could benefit clinical researchers by providing a new way to precisely measure walking function in patients with movement disorders or musculoskeletal injuries, in their living environments. The technology could also lead to significant advances for athletes, by helping them improve their running technique. "From a practical standpoint, that's invaluable," said Damiano Zanotto, lead author and director of Stevens Wearable Robotic Systems Lab. "We're now able to accurately analyze a person's gait in real time, in real-world environments." Taking a single step might seem simple, but capturing reliable information about a person's gait in real-life environments remains a major challenge for researchers. Gold-standard gait-analysis technologies, such as camera-based motion-capture systems and force plates, are expensive and can only be used inside laboratories, so they offer few insights into how people walk around in the real world. Emerging wearable technologies such as smart shoes, pods, and insoles can potentially overcome this limitation, but the existing products cannot provide accurate gait data. In their work, Zanotto and his team show that their smart insole can deliver real-time data on the length, speed, and power of a wearer's stride with better accuracy than existing foot-worn technologies -- and at a fraction of the cost of traditional laboratory equipment. (Zanotto and his team are seeking two patents relating to the SportSole, and several companies and professional sporting franchises are closely following the team's work.) The team's SportSole technology uses accelerometers and gyroscopes to monitor its own movement and orientation in space, and an array of force sensors to detect plantar pressure, allowing it to capture 500 readings per second -- around a fivefold improvement over smart pedometers and other wearable gait-analysis tools. The real magic, however, happens outside the shoe. Wearable motion sensors are inherently noisy. To overcome that challenge, Zanotto simmers those 500 measurements per second down to just a few key features, then feeds the results into an AI algorithm capable of rapidly extracting gait parameters that are accurate to within a couple of percentage points. That's a big improvement over other AI gait-analysis tools, which are computationally intensive and require data to be recorded for later analysis. The Stevens system is far more efficient, allowing it to be baked into a microcontroller capable of delivering real-time gait analysis. It also works regardless of whether the wearer is walking or running, and generates accurate results without requiring calibration or customization for individual users. Preliminary testing suggests the SportSole even works with children as young as three years of age and elderly with vestibular disorders, whose gait patterns are very different from those of healthy adults. Such consistent accuracy is impressive because most gait researchers use high-end sensors costing $1,000 or more in a bid to reduce errors. By contrast, Zanotto and his team used off-the-shelf sensors costing around $100, relying on AI to extract reliable data. "We're achieving the same or better results at a far lower cost, and that's a big deal when it comes to scaling this technology," said Zanotto. For now, though, the team is focusing on testing the SportSole for clinical use. An unobtrusive, wearable gait monitor could help researchers optimize treatments for people with movement disorders, allow remote monitoring of vulnerable populations, or offer important insights into the safety and efficacy of new treatments that might affect gait and balance.  |
| Man accused of stealing shoes from outletmall - KGNS.tv Posted: 18 Mar 2020 03:27 AM PDT  LAREDO, TX (KGNS) - A man is facing charges after he allegedly stole several pairs of shoes from our local outlet mall. Laredo Police arrested 24-year-old angel Francisco Zavala and charged him with theft. The case unfolded back in January when officers were called out to the Nike outlet store. Officers met with an employee who stated that someone entered the store, took out a plastic bag from his pocket and then stole roughly $800 worth of merchandise from the store. With the help of surveillance footage, authorities were able to identify Zavala as the prime suspect.  |
| Donate online to KRQE Cares Shoes for Kids - KRQE News 13 Posted: 17 Mar 2020 12:18 PM PDT  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (FOX) – KRQE Cares Shoes for Kids provides local elementary students with a brand new pair of sneakers, something many of them would otherwise go without. There are new changes that will be implemented this year. KRQE Community Relations Director visits the set to discuss these new changes. KRQE Cares has three initiatives that are always expanding: Shoes for Kids, Books for Kids, and Food for Kids. The month of March is KRQE Cares' Shoes for Kids campaign which is the one initiative that requests the viewer's help in order to purchase those brand new shoes. "As you know, when we go into a Title 1 school we put shoes on every single child in the school," said Carolyn. "That could be as many as 600 kids at one time and so it's essential that we continue our fundraising and because of what's going on right now we know it's hard for families and so we decided to do something different and just do an online giving campaign rather than our phone bank." Visit KRQE Cares online and click the red "Donate Now" button to make a donation to Shoes for Kids. Funds will go directly to the Assistance League of Albuquerque, the nonprofit organization that the campaign runs through.  |
| COMME des GARÇONS HOMME Plus Drops Metal-Plated Oxford Shoes - HYPEBEAST Posted: 18 Mar 2020 03:13 AM PDT  Off the heels of its Fall/Winter 2020 presentation at Paris Fashion Week two months ago, COMME des GARÇONS HOMME Plus is back with its latest footwear. Featured is a pair of sleek black oxford shoes, embellished with a large angular silver-toned plate. Starting at the top of the shoe are sleek tonal padded collars, accented by brown-colored leather trims along the edges of each panel on the shoe. Hanging over the laces, at the top of the tongue, is a curved leather panel with three rivets that hold the shoe's metal plate in place. At the throatline is another trio of rivets, complemented by triple-stitched seams that outline the toecap. Furthermore, the shoe's heel comes with a reinforced backstay that sits next to a slim upper quarter. All of these details sit atop a tonal D.H. sole that's made in Japan — a sturdy, articulated foundation for the dressy silhouette. The COMME des GARÇONS HOMME Plus Metallic Oxford Shoes are currently available at H. LORENZO's website for $1,179 USD. In case you missed it, check out COMME des GARÇONS HOMME Plus' classic wool trousers, detailed with pleated satin trims.  |
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