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These shoes are made from apples
Sampla is a sustainable footwear startup from Ireland, and in their current Kickstarter campaign, they're offering a new pair of animal-friendly shoes made from … apples?! Rethinking the classic tennis...
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Fun and ridiculous Ghostbusters sneakers from Reebok
Reebok is releasing this fun and cartoony Ghostbusters "Ghost Smashers" sneaker design on Halloween. There's also another style in the collaboration called the "Classic Leather" but it's not nearly as...
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Ingenious hands-free sneaker design
The Nike GO FlyEase is an ingenious design for accessible hands-free sneakers that you can slip on and off. They'll sell for $120. "Usually I spend so much time to get in my shoes," says champion...
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These sneakers are woven by robots and have 3D-printed soles
Adidas is releasing a new sneaker design with a 3D-printed sole and fabric upper that's woven by a robot from as many as 10 different yarns. The first commercial versions, called Futurecraft.Strung,...
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Check out the difference between a 20-cent shoeshine and a $2 dollar...
Karl Rock is a New Zealander YouTuber who now lives in Delhi, India. He recently went to Pakistan and got his shoes shined by two different people. One guy charged him 20 cents (the going rate for...
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Prince's shoe collection on display at Paisley Park
Prince's home and studio Paisley Park, now a museum celebrating the purple one, is hosting a new exhibition of his fantastic custom shoe collection. From The Beautiful Collection exhibit description:...
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This shoe does not exist
An AI trained by Nasir Khalid on countless pictures of shoes generates more. Whenever there's a new one of these, I become obsessed with the "tells"—the little things that the AI consistently gets...
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Custom sneakers based on VHS tapes (have a big logo not shown in product shots)
UPDATE: A reader who bought a pair reports that they came with a "whack garbage" logo that is concealed in all the product shots. The existence of the logo is disclosed in 16px gray text at the bottom...
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This maker built pneumatic "superhuman jumping shoes"
Ian Charnas was challenged to come up with a contraption that would enable "superhuman jumping." He succeeded, kinda. From MAKE: I looked at using springs, stunt industry equipment, and even chemical...
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Make tiny snowplow attachments for Crocs
Think Crocs aren't all-season shoes? Think again. A bunch of Etsy vendors have 3D-print files ready for you to download and create your own snow-busting shoe attachment. I live in a part of California...
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5-Minute Crafts offers a perfect way to ruin two pairs of shoes at once
Nothing brings me more joy recently than scrolling through r/DiWHY. It's an archive of all the missteps the denizens of the Internet may take when trying to fix something themselves, and if nothing...
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Watching custom, handmade hiking boots being made in a Korean shoe shop
More mesmerizing work from the world's great handcrafters. Here, in a 90-year-old Korean shoe factory, a customer gets a pair of hiking boots custom-made for them. Previously on Boing Boing: Making Go...
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Red Wing recreated Mario's boots, in honor of Super Mario Bros. movie
Mario's boots are now real, thanks to heritage shoe brand Red Wing. The recreation of the plumber's boots are promotion for the new Super Mario Bros. Movie. "Mario's boots are expertly crafted from Red...
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Mystery foot in a shoe found on New Zealand beach
Something strange is afoot off the coast of New Zealand. A beachgoer found a shoe with a disembodied foot inside at Petone Beach in Wellington, New Zealand. Of course, this reminds one of the mystery...
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Birkinstocks are Birkenstocks made from destroyed luxury Birkin bags
The art-and-advertising collective MSCHF has brought a portmanteau to the next level by making Birkenstock-style sandals from deconstructed Hermès Birkin handbags. Except for some finishing details...
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FBI charged man who allegedly stole Dorothy's ruby slippers
The FBI has charged Terry Martin, 76, for allegedly stealing a pair of the ruby slippers worn by Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939). He is accused of smashing a window at Minnesota's Judy Garland...
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Tiny edible shoes carved from various fruits
View this post on Instagram A post shared by TJC [danielle krysa] (@thejealouscurator) These tiny edible shoes carved from fruits are almost too cute to eat. They all look like something out of a...
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Nike faces class-action lawsuit accusing it of greenwashing
The movie Air dramatizes the risks that Nike took when signing Michael Jordan as their anchor athlete. Beyond sustaining the brand, Jordan transformed the corporation into a global capitalist...
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The Bee Gees''Stayin' Alive' but on a church pipe organ
Watch Vincent Thévenaz, an organist and professor at Geneva's Haute Ecole de Musique, perform the Bee Gees' 1977 disco hit "Stayin' Alive" on the historic Great Organ at St-Pierre Cathedral. Sounds...
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Finally, you can buy a pair of testicles for your Crocs
Have you ever seen a truck on the highway with a pair of silicon testicles dangling off the back and thought, "Wow! It's so cool that the person who owns that vehicle loves balls so much that they...
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Los Angeles police find warehouse containing $7 million in stolen Nike sneakers
This week, Los Angeles police entered a Torrance warehouse where they found massive amounts of stolen Nike sneakers. The hot kicks are valued at around $7 million. From CBS News: Detectives first...
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Another chance to buy vintage Apple sneakers, offered to employees in the 1990s
The last time a pair of pristine Apple-branded sneakers came up for auction, bidding started at $16,000. This time you'll need $50,000 in hand just to get in the door. The pair feature an air...
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Adidas donates some profits from the sale of Yeezy stuff to groups fighting...
Rather than create a lot of landfill with the leftover residue from its failed partnership with anti-semite and pop icon Kanye "Ye" West, Adidas sold it off. The company posted solid profits off the...
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Stomp around like a cartoon character in these nutso yellow Croc boots
Brooklyn-based MSCHF—makers of the microscopic handbag and Birkinstocks—collaborated with Croc. This is the result. You can buy the Big Yellow Boots as of today. You can look like a cartoon character....
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Spike Lee's Nike Air Jordans, worth more than $15k, found in homeless shelter...
A client/volunteer at a Portland homeless shelter was organizing donations in a bin when he spotted a curious pair of shiny gold Nike Air Jordan sneakers. Turns out, the sneakers were custom Air Jordan...
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Curious spinning wheel of feet made to test shoes in 1933
This spinning wheel of feet was made to test shoes in 1933. A conveyor belt underneath the device keeps the foot-wheel spinning. Although this device was made to test the quality of the shoes (which...
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Man sued teenager for selling him $20,000 worth of fake Air Jordans
An Australian man paid approximately $20,000 for seven pairs of what he believed to be rare Nike Air Jordan sneakers. But when he received the good, the man said that "defects" made him believe the...
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Man suffers 3rd-degree burns on feet — after losing flip flops on hike in...
A 42-year-old man from Belgium suffered third-degree burns on his feet last weekend after somehow losing his flip-flops on a hike in Death Valley, California. After his family — along with some good...
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Nicole McLaughlin's 'Heel Punch' shoes are crafty and chic
Nicole McLaughlin is a designer who makes incredibly fun and playful sustainable fashion. Her work often upcycles everyday objects by transforming them into wearable items. I can't get over how cool...
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Fortnite is selling virtual shoes now
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Fortnite seems to be becoming a bit of a Tower of Babel of consumerism. The core gameplay is still as solid as it ever was, but with...
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