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3D print LED smart shoes without the full sense of science and technology Duang

For the sake of our basic necessities of life, science and technology company is also a broken heart. For example, New York startup SOLS think, people bother to buy shoes, try really in trouble, then you directly to the body print a pair of shoes!

ADAPTIV and our common shoes completely different. The concept of product use system composed of the gyroscope and the pressure sensor in the 3D printing of customized shell. So, ADAPTIV can be said to be a "smart" shoes, it can monitor the wearer's action, and a corresponding change in the shoes of the internal pressure distribution, to support the foot, ankle and other parts of the body to wear. For athletes, the shoes can better help them through the adaptability of physical activity, and enhance athletic performance.

This custom shoes in the end what? According to the effect of release, is a good Different people, different views. The shoe is out of the leather, but leather implanted inside the motion sensor, and silica gel airbag ankle area will be installed on the 3D printing, by inflating and deflating the change of support. More impressive is the color sensing camera and RGB LED also installed on the shoes, the wearer can according to different color change clothes.

Although both the print or insole of shoes, the market entry point is very small, but SOLS still get recognized by the capital market. In January last year and April, SOLS has received $1 million 750 thousand from the Lux Capital angel financing and joint investment by RRE Ventures $6 million 400 thousand A round of investment. According to Recode news, Sols again recently received $11 million 100 thousand financing, investors include Founders Fund, Lux Capital investment institutions before, and the new Tenaya Capital, Melo7 Tech Partners. What's interesting is that the funds are part of Melo7 from NBA star "Muskmelon" Cameron Anthony; the Dallas Mavericks general manager Terdema Ussery also announced to the board of directors SOLS. This is the earliest in the medical field started the company seems to want to borrow the name of NBA into the sports market.

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