For those who have trouble finding their way home, now comes a clever and imaginative solution. Taking it’s cue from a certain pair of ruby red slippers, the wearer of these special shoes can always know what direction home is, sans any heel clicking (although that seems easier somehow).
Created by Dominic Wilcox, he shares a few words on the project:
I 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. After uploading your required destination to the shoes via a piece of custom made mapping software and a USB cable, the GPS, which is embedded in the heal, is activated by a heal click. It then communicates to the wearer via a ring of LED lights to point in the required direction. The shoe with the GPS wirelessly communicates with the right shoe that has a progress bar of lights to show how close you are to the destination.
