![What seems like something out of a science fiction novel about an Olympic gold medalist turned super hero, engineers have developed a shoe for runners that weighs only 96 grams and is precisely fit to the athlete’s foot using 3-D image modeling and selective laser sintering.
The shoe that will revolutionize the sport of competitive running, [...]](http://guymanningham.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/laser-sintered-shoes.jpg "3-D Printed Shoes: The Athlete’s Foot")
What seems like something out of a science fiction novel about an Olympic gold medalist turned super hero, engineers have developed a shoe for runners that weighs only 96 grams and is precisely fit to the athlete’s foot using 3-D image modeling and selective laser sintering.
The shoe that will revolutionize the sport of competitive running, with applications in various other sports as well, was designed by Luc Fusaro for his final project at the Royal College of Art in London. Wearing the lightweight running shoe is said to help the runner achieve maximum fit and its design will improve performance by a whopping 3.5%. If that doesn’t sound like much, consider that the LZR Racer suits by Speedo were responsible for the fall of dozens of world records in 2008 and they were only showed to lower race times by around 2%.
