{"id":122272,"date":"2014-04-24T13:53:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T13:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122272"},"modified":"2014-04-24T13:53:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T13:53:29","slug":"supershoes-tickling-shoes-that-facilitate-urban-rediscov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122272","title":{"rendered":"SuperShoes &#8211; tickling shoes that facilitate urban rediscovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/90973967\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Today we immerse in our digital lives through smartphones \u2013 we use google maps to navigate to the right location, yelp to find the right restaurant and so on. We don\u2019t get lost anymore, we don\u2019t wander, wonder and discover. Acts of random serendipity through walking brings us back to our innate nature as explorers, walking is meditating.<\/p>\n<p>SuperShoes are a pair of flexible inner soles that you can flex, twist and put in any of your shoes to make them a supershoe. Each of these soles have three vibrotactile motors that tickle your toes, a capacitive pad that recognizes your touch and serves as an input modality. Onboard micro controller, low-power bluetooth and battery supplement the interface. The soles talk to the smartphone to use its location and data services. Users register onto ShoeCentral \u2013 once \u2013 where they populate their likes and dislikes (food, people, shopping, weather, places, hobbies, activities, interests etc) and social preferences. The ShoeCentral keeps learning about user preferences as you use the SuperShoes to go around. Created by  Dhairya Dand<\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=50631\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">SuperShoes \u2013 tickling shoes that facilitate urban rediscovery<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Curious Brain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we immerse in our digital lives through smartphones \u2013 we use google maps to navigate to the right location, yelp to find the right restaurant and so on. We don\u2019t get lost anymore, we don\u2019t wander, wonder and discover. Acts of random serendipity through walking brings us back to our innate nature as explorers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-other-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/supershoes-tickling-shoes-that-f.jpg?fit=295%2C166&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50631,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=50631","url_meta":{"origin":122272,"position":0},"title":"SuperShoes &#8211; tickling shoes that facilitate urban rediscovery","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"24\/04\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/90973967 Today we immerse in our digital lives through smartphones - we use google maps to navigate to the right location, yelp to find the right restaurant and so on. 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