Adidas -- 3D-printed shoes
 

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/07/ad...-within-sight/

The factories will be robotized and located?

They look cool. 3D printing used for something practical :thumbsup

It's good for Crocs...But you can't 3d print cotton and leather...

neat looking shoes they look like yeezys tho so i wouldn't ever buy them

this...


still look pretty cool, not $333 cool, but pretty cool :2 cents:

They are ugly, and can you imagine trying to clean those things?

You are missing the point -- these shoes are machine printed -- made with very little human hand labor. The price and style are not really that material. The shoes can be made in developed countries.

Let me see if I understand this correctly

1. So they outsourced production to the 3rd world and destroyed our jobs
2. Now they're going to automate 3rd world factories and destroy their jobs too

Why doesn't this sit well with me?

so taking money from the poor and not even giving to the work force of that country anyway :( :helpme

But it's all about the rich getting richer, everyone should be behind that because you are dumb lib if not..

There I posted for JoshuaMo

Good, now if it only they would give more protection and resurrect Derrick Rose's career and bum knee....

Not paying over 300 bucks for sneakers

The material it is printed out of is not leather or cotton that make 99% of all footwear...Those 3d printed ones are basically Crocs...They are plastic...333$ Crocs...I don't see it creating too much jeeerbs...

I wonder if you can feel the difference when you wear them

Stop fixating on the shoes material or price.

Clothing is made of polymers and might be printed also. Synthetic fabric production is in for technological disruption.

Plastic shoes are not worth $333. But what is the material cost of production and the amortization rate of the machinery to do this -- scaled out?

Yet !!!

I didn't think it would be possible to spray CHROME but they can do it now and you can buy a machine for just a little over $5000