Like those light up kicks you had as a kid, or the flashing Topshop x Ashish Buffalo platforms – but better.
Japanese designer Yuya Kikukawa has come up with the latest in smart fashion: Orphe shoes.
So high-tech are these LED sneaks that they come packed with 9-axis motion sensors (to detect range of movement and change colour) and can be controlled using your smartphone.
They were developed by start-up company No New Folk Studio for dancers and artists to take their performance game to another level by creating customisable patterns via 100 full-colour, serially-controlled LEDs.
We need a pair of these bad boys.
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