Anatomical shoes
These X-ray shoes make your skin go transparent and reveal the internal workings of your foot.
Or something.
Human internal organ anatomical drawing Keds shoe (via Street Anatomy)
These X-ray shoes make your skin go transparent and reveal the internal workings of your foot.
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I love the cute little pink heart on the toe!
I've heard of wearing your heart on your sleeve...
My foot has a heart? I guess that's that new 'pump' technology or something...
@3 Beat me to it! FTW
Pediviscera!
These will be a hit with all the kids
65 pounds is quite dear. An interesting "year in review" number for boing boing might be the sum, per editor or in aggregate, of the merchandise reviewed hereabouts this yew arr ell. Perhaps relative to your salaries, ad income or traffic. Too meta or off topic?
No blisters?
Sold.
Echonomist: depends on what you mean by "reviewed." I sometimes acquire an object -- either a review unit or out of pocket -- and write what I think about it. That's a review.
FAR more often, though, the editors here see an object -- often one that is for sale -- and mention its existence without any sort of review material, in order to say, "This exists and its existence itself is noteworthy." There's no endorsement -- no qualitative information about the object at all -- just reportage.
errr... If those are the inner workings of your foot, you have something seriously wrong with you.
But if they DID show the muscles and bones of the foot, THAT would be a cool shoe.
This is just the same heart image (probably a public domain image) copied twice in two sizes. Still, and interesting idea.
My friend Mike has a pair that actually show what goes on inside his feet. Those are better. He made them himself. Awwww.
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Mike! Just do it.
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Actually, muscular contraction of the lower extremities helps with venous return, so we sort of can think of the muscles as heartlike. Which is one reason we twitch our legs.
http://books.google.com/books?id=IUrKGP54fh4C&pg=PA541&lpg=PA541&dq=%22muscular+contractions%22++%22venous+return%22+%22lower+extremities%22&source=bl&ots=vTEqXl67sA&sig=FMWTNM_F_V216YLCRWQwTSp5kWU&hl=en&ei=wmutSbr7A-H8tgeRmvWKBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result
But, the muscles of the legs don't look heartlike, except at the cellular level, and only if you squint and miss that they're not branching.
Color me disappointed that it's not a drawing of the insides of the foot. The distal part of the lower extremity is so intricate! And, as you say, what happens in the foot does not stay in the foot, but travels up the chain to reflect throughout the body. Your feet work hard all day; they would appreciate a massage when you take off your shoes (however decorated) at night.
Do they make pants?