Prototype Footwear (IMAGE)

American Institute of Physics

Prototype Footwear

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The heel of this prototype winter shoe is made from a rubbery plastic embedded with tens of thousands of tiny glass fibers that protrude out of the rubber like microscopic studs to grip the ice.

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Reza Rizvi, Yue Li, and Sharon Ravindran/ Toronto Rehabilitation Institute

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