Shoes Of The Day

What is the Verb For Shoe? For four years Ron Demon, an MIT grad, has been working on the Verb For Shoe “smartshoe” and this month he is taking pre-orders. Each Verb For Shoe product is custom made to order and must pass a rigorous inspection. Expect your shipment in 10-14 days. But wait there’s more…this shoe also has an “engine.” It even comes with built-in airbags for your feet. The footwear features an insole computer which will adjust the level of support in your shoes depending on what you are doing - this feature is called “Auto Comfort” The shoes sense when you are walking, the bladders adjust and become softer. The shoes sense when you are running and the bladders will adjust and become firmer. The Verb for Shoes also come with a social networking component - you can share your personal information “wirelessly” with other Verb Shoe wearers. Shoes of the day: Verb For Shoe.

Technology: Yes.

Inventor: Ronald S. Demon

Sizes: 7-13

Price: $699.99 US

Site: verbforshoe.com

If I’m going to drop 7 Benjamin’s on a pair of shoes, they are going to go on their own.

The only time shoes are bad for your feet is when they look like this! If your feet look like this furry pair of wing-tips, get some new shoes on quick!

You can view the entire article and comments about “shoes are bad for your feet” here. Or, if you would like to see the true barefoot shoes or “floves” (gloves for your feet) find them here.

Get your feet back on the right track with these new shoes of the day: The Piloti Prototipos Driving Shoes.

Great article, great shoes, you can find it all here. “You’ve treated your sports car to a top-notch set of tires. The engine is freshly tuned and bathed in the finest motor oil you can buy. And now you’re climbing aboard for a drive…wearing that ratty old pair of tennis shoes? Puh-leeze. If you’re serious about your driving — especially if you own a car with a manual transmission — you need superior equipment on your busy feet. That means a proper pair of driving shoes.

These new Piloti Prototipos are among the best I’ve tried. Developed by Kevin A. Beard, graduate of the famed Art Center college in Pasadena (training ground for many of the world’s top auto stylists) and former designer for Adidas, Reebok, and K-Swiss, the Pilotis are true thoroughbreds, shoes specifically crafted with the needs of driving enthusiasts in mind.” — Source to Arthur St. Antoine 

These are the ShoesOfTheDay….probably for the entire month of April. Amazing.  Thanks Treehugger!

The Shoe System is down

I don’t know about you, but I have never been worried that the soles of my feet would ever be cold. Well, here’s a pair of phurry phlip-phlops for all you cold souls. I would love your thoughts on the schizophrenic “I-cant-decide-if –I-am-in-Alaska-or-Hawaii” shoes of the day. The Bonsai; not sure if we’re flying north or south for the winter - after all, it is spring! We like these!

See ‘em here “Bonsai Sheepskin Sandals“

I took my son to an athletic sporting event tonight, and after the first half of play he wanted to go home. I thought, “when I was a kid,” put some sugar in my mouth and I was good for at least another shot-clock violation or two. So, off we went to the concession stands in search of something loaded with the white substance that makes us all (legally) feel good. Perfect, right outside our portal we located the cotton candy stand! “Dad, let’s buy those treats” pointing at the air and sugar inflated bags of cotton candy. We exchanged way too much money and then whipped open the plastic.  He cautiously reached his hand inside the bag, touched the fiberglass feeling swirls of baby-blue sugar, and hesitantly lifted it towards his mouth — “eeew! Dad, we don’t eat this!” So, being the brave dad, I said, “Look Son, mmmm….sugar!” and put some in my mouth. He still wasn’t convinced, and after a couple of attempts he was adamant, “I don’t like this stuff.”

Well, today I felt like a kid again. Not only did I get all-i-could-eat cotton candy, but tonight when I was looking online, all the shoes that were hot when I was a kid are hot again.  Here is a list of shoes that were hot in the mid 80’s and are back with a vengeance! The shoes of the day:

Sperry Topsiders

Vans Authentic

Converse All-Star Ox

Clarks Wallabee

I am going to find a penny for my new loafers and then put in the video tape of ‘Back to the Future‘ See ya in about 30 years Marty.

No, we’re not talking Wayne Newton, if so this would be a cowboy boot review. We’re talking Sir Isaac Newton and a company that has built their shoe brand around Newton’s first law of Motion. Yeah, the law that states that an object at rest remains at rest and an object in motion remains in motion…etc. Shoes that remain in motion?

I don’t know about you, but I have yet to wear a pair of running shoes that say, “come-on, keep on going, you’re not tired, you feel great.” These days, I get tired just lacing up my running shoes. I just want to know, where were these shoes when I had to run the timed mile run in 7th grade 20+ years ago– probably in Coach Swenson’s “secret closet.” Jeff, you were there. Yeah, that’s for another day.

It is interesting to read and hear about trends and buzz-words in the news: “green” in building, “organic” in food, and “barefoot” in shoes. Get off your heels and run on your forefoot - that is what they say at Newton Running. (Running-man stick-figures not included.) However, if you run in cowboy boots, stay on your heels and just be careful to not damage your spurs.

Be prepared to spend a minimum of a Benjamin and a Grant for this shoe technology. Better yet, get your grant, pay for these shoes, and go running.

Enjoy the shoes of the day that stay in motion….the MEN’S CUSHION RACER by Newton Running.