Rocket scientists attempt to re-engineer the stiletto heel for high performance, comfort and fashion. If they can make a stiletto heel comfortable… feels like black magic to me! Preorders will soon be available via their website, for the hefty price of $350-$925 USD. Via Bazaar:
On some days, Dolly Singh could easily walk three miles across the hard, white floors of the sleek 550,000-square-foot headquarters of SpaceX, the place founded by billionaire genius Elon Musk that plans to colonize Mars. As lead recruiter from 2008 to 2013, Singh gave roughly 5,000 tours of Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX — almost always in heels — to show jobseekers where they might work.
While her company aimed for the heavens, the 37-year-old Singh was keenly aware of her feet. A lover of heels, she noticed that shoes easy to wear in her twenties were becoming painful in her early thirties. There was late-in-the-day foot fatigue and painful friction from shoes cut too narrow in the toe bed. Instead of trading down to flats, however, Singh considered the painful irony of her situation — and sought a solution.
“You are concurrently walking one of the most advanced engineering facilities in the world, where the impossible is possible every day,” she said. “Then you’re like, ‘This is a stupid problem, and somebody should fix it.'”