- Syntilay has released 3D printed shoes designed by AI.
- The footwear was designed with a mixture of Midjourney and Vizcom AI.
- 150 dollar shoes use smartphone scans for a fully customized adjustment.
If you like crocs but you would like to have a more science fiction story, you are in luck. A new company called Syntilay is using artificial intelligence and 3D printing to produce a new shoe line. The futuristic footwear is now available for $ 150. These slides are not cheap, but innovation is rarely.
Syntilay uses a combination of artificial intelligence tools complemented with human art to create their shoes, which at first sight resembles more than a deep -waters fish. The designers trusted Midjourney to develop the basic shape of the shoe. After that, a human artist refined the idea with a sketch in search of inspiration uploaded to Vizcom AI, which produced a 3D model based on the sketch. Then, the AI helped to design and incorporate textures and patterns in the design of the footwear, completing its appearance.
The businessman Ben Weiss founded Syntilay, but has the support of the co -founder of Reebok, Joe Foster, who added some credibility to the idea. The shoes come in five colors: orange, red, beige, black and blue. They are supposed to evoke the work of Syd Mead, the artist behind the iconic images of Blade Runner and Aliens.
AI shoes
150 dollars are printed in 3D in Germany and are manufactured especially for each client, and are sent after about three weeks. If you want to buy a couple, you are asked to scan your feet with the camera of a smartphone so that the shoes are perfectly, even adjusting to the slight usual differences between the right and left foot of the people.
There is also the question of practicality. Although scanning your feet with the camera of a phone seems simple, not everyone is willing to devote themselves to technology just to buy shoes. And what happens if the adjustment is not adequate after scanning and printing? These are obstacles that Syntilay must address as its operations expand.
The question, of course, is whether the market is prepared for footwear driven by AI. Syntilay’s shoes will have to show that they are worth it and wait for comfort and durability.
$ 150 is a fairly high price when generic slides similar to crocs can cost $ 20 or even less. Syntilay has to wait for its design, its promise of personalized adjustment and the trick of the design of the first users.
Certainly there have been personalized shoes before, but the combination of AI and 3D printing can attract those who seek to mark trends.
