Are these AI-designed shoes the future of footwear?

  • Syntilay has launched 3D printed shoes designed with AI.
  • The shoe was designed with a mix of Midjourney and Vizcom AI
  • The $150 shoes use smartphone foot scans for a fully custom fit.

If you like crocodiles but wish they had a sci-fi backstory, you're in luck. A startup called Syntilay is using AI and 3D printing to produce a new line of shoes. The futuristic shoe is available now for $150 per pair. These slides aren't cheap, but innovation rarely is.

Syntilay uses a mix of AI tools complemented by human artistry to create its shoes, which look more like a deep-sea fish at first glance. The designers relied on MidJourney to develop the basic shape of the shoe. After that, a human artist refined the idea with an inspiration sketch uploaded to Vizcom Ai, which produced a 3D model based on the sketch. AI then helped design and embed textures and patterns into the shoe's design, completing its look.

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