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I HAVE REPRINTED THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE FROM THE BRITISH ONLINE PUBLICATION SPORTSTEXTILES.

Has Puma unlocked the next evolution in shoe design?

Sports brand Puma has unveiled a new experimental sports shoe that it claims is able to intuitively change its construction in order to adapt to the wearer’s foot.

How can an inanimate object do something such as reconstruct it? It can’t but puma thinks unthinkingly that it can be done.

The product is part of its BioEvolution project, which began in June 2017 as a research collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Design Lab. It is the first result of Puma’s work with German research organisation the Fraunhofer Institute

For the past 3 or 4 years I have been reading about mit design lab creating something and thus far they have created nothing and I expect when all is said and done this shoe business will be in the same category of creating nothing. I have no knowledge of the institute mentioned but I suspect they are like the ho ho institute, a do nothing organization.

The BioEvolution shoe features a biologically active layer on the upper that acts like a nano-sensor net and can map at a microscopic level the areas of the foot that produce heat and sweat. It can then create a matching ventilation pattern, which prompts the micro-organisms within it to selectively remove materials to create a unique fit for that foot.

Incredible actions that the materials used to make the shoe are/is able to “map” areas of the foot that produce heat and sweat. How about the whole foot? Doesn’t the whole foot product heat and sweat? Do they not know that the feet sweat more than any other part of the body? In some manner micro-organisms (where did they come from) will remove materials to create a unique fit for that foot. Would that be like ants removing food from a spot on the floor?

It was presented at the ‘Materials Village’ exhibition held by Material ConneXion, an innovative materials library, at the recent Milan Design Week.

All of this nonsense is or has been shown in Italy the home of exotic nothingness.

As the technology is still at an experimental stage, Puma has said co commercial version of the shoe is planned at present.

What is good to find out is that “puma has said “no” (not co) commercial version of the shoe is planned at present”. If the truth be known aside from this article you will never again hear about this I think looney product.

It appears almost on a daily basis there is a new fabric, process, chemical, etc. that comes to the forefront in an article on one of these textile web site magazines that is going to make your life much more enjoyable when you endeavor going out of your house, let-a-lone into the vast wilderness areas of the country.

In the past two years due to what I believe has been a down turn in the youth of America going into the vast wilderness possibly because the quality of the many products available to them have performed so poorly all of the largest of retailers have started programs to encourage the youth to go into the wild.

If shoes fall apart, jackets don’t keep you warm as the same goes for sleeping bags is it any wonder why they the youth that is prefer to play on their I phones or tablets.

When companies come up with hair-brained ideas about products that prove quite successfully not to perform for the purpose intended you will lose the youth.

Of course these large retailers wouldn’t ever consider telling their suppliers to start concentrating on actually making improvements to the products they presently make. That would be a hardship because the product makers haven’t a clue about improving the products they currently make.

So these retailers rely on companies like puma coming up with a new potential product so all of them can have a new bogus story to tell. Gore is the leader in that field; they haven’t produced a new product in 40 years. They just keep creating new stories about the old Teflon film being laminated to this fabric or that fabric which is no different than what they had 40 years ago. It didn’t work them and in all these years nothing has changed.

All the down guys water repellant treat the down which could have been done 50 years ago, but wasn’t and the reason is simple it doesn’t make a difference. But they have a new story to tell about the down. The down people refuse to accept the fact that down is not now never has been or ever will be the insulator that has been talked about since the 1930’s when eddie bauer popularized it.

And of course there are the chopped staple polyester fiberfill guys who dream up new names for the same fiberfill product that they and others have been selling for the 60 years that I have been in the business.

I do not know all of the facets of why the continuous filament fiberfill in the very light weights that I use performs so much better than the same weights or thicknesses of the chopped products but I do know from my many customers that the L-3 Lamilite out performs all of the chopped staple fiberfill battings out there.

Will the beans and rei’s of the world wake up, not anytime soon.