Adidas’ Highly-Anticipated 3D-Printed Futurecraft 4D Is The Sneaker Of 3018

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The Golden Age in footwear is upon us. Nike labored for a decade before releasing the HyperAdapt Trainer 1.0–a self-lacing shoe that when your heel strikes a sensor, the underfoot-lacing system lights and up triggers the system to form around your foot. Nike also developed Anti-Clog Traction on its soccer cleats that makes it almost impossible for mud to jam the sole plate of the cleats.

Point is, if sex scientists spent a fraction of the time trying to innovate a safer way to have sex than sticking a balloon on your johnson as shoe designers spent fixing less important problems in our lives, then I wouldn’t have to answer to this cold sore every month. Kidding. Or am I?

Adidas has been a technology titan in its newer shoes and next week’s drop of the Futurecraft4D will be evident of that. According to Esquire, the long-awaited running shoe was crafted using Silicon Valley start-up and 3D-printing specialist Carbon’s Digital Light Synthesis–a more advanced way of 3D printing using light and oxygen that is cheaper, less time-consuming, and easier to scale.

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The shoe, which will run for $300, is being dubbed the “world’s first high performance footwear featuring midsoles crafted with light and oxygen.”

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The shoe will launch January 18 in New York City in places that carry Adidas Consortium, like Kith, Packer, and SNS.

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