Picture yourself as a newbie in town. You don\u2019t know the city well, you have no car and you\u2019ve got a job interview in the early a.m. It\u2019s a snowy day!! You got a laptop bag in one hand and a portfolio in the other. The last thing you want to do is stop and look into the map. All you want to do it walk as fast as you can from the metro station to the interview place and make sure you arrive on time.<\/p>\n

British artist and designer\u00a0Dominic Wilcox<\/strong>\u00a0has created a pair of smart leather shoes which would assist you in leading the way. These formal pair of shoes have been embedded with a GPS system. Yes Sir!<\/p>\n

\u201cI was commissioned by the Global Footprint project in Northamptonshire, a place famous for shoe making, to create some shoes. I decided to make a pair of shoes that can navigate you to anywhere you wish to travel to. I thought about the Wizard of Oz and how Dorothy could click her shoes together to go home.\u201d says Dominic Wilcox.<\/p>\n

All you need to do is feed in your destination address in the shoes through a piece of custom made mapping software\u00a0and a USB cable and the GPS embedded in the heel gets activated by a heel click. The left shoe comes with a ring of lights that directs you on the right path and the right shoe\u00a0has a progress bar of lights that show how close you are to the destination.<\/p>\n

Wilcox worked in collaboration with interactive arts and technology expert\u00a0Becky Stewart<\/a>\u00a0and local Northampton shoe maker\u00a0Stamp Shoes<\/a>\u00a0to create a pair of\u00a0fully functional\u00a0GPS shoes<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Preparing the leather<\/p>\n

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Integrating electronics<\/p>\n

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Right shoe acts as a progress bar and Left shoe\u00a0points in the desired direction<\/p>\n

+\u00a0Dominic Wilcox<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Picture yourself as a newbie in town. You don\u2019t know the city well, you have no car and you\u2019ve got a job interview in the early a.m. It\u2019s a snowy day!! You got a laptop bag in one hand and a portfolio in the other. The last thing you want to do is stop and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4706,137,357,52],"tags":[6834,6833,567,3247,3246],"yoast_head":"\n