DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF
By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane
MIT USES AI PREDICTIVE MODEL TO PERFECT YOUR RUNNING SHOES
- Top engineers and scientists at MIT have created an AI predictive model to pinpoint the perfect running shoes for you. Here's what we know:
- MIT's predictive model uses your height, weight and leg length to simulate your gait
- The model tests the gait in sneakers of different materials and dynamics like bounce and stiffness to determine the optimal shoe that uses the least energy per stride for you
- The MIT team believes their model will enable designers to create innovative, new types of high-performance running shoes customized to the individual
- It predicts how certain shoe properties will affect a runner's performance
- The MIT team's moonshot goal: have you send a video of yourself running, put it through their model and then have the resulting perfect shoe 3-D printed for you
- Part of their research was funded by Adidas.
ELEVATOR OPERATOR: "GOING UP? NEXT FLOOR MARS"
- There are plans for a space elevator made from a captured asteroid to send passengers to the stars. Here's what we know:
- Called Ascension, it's the plan of a British architect
- It's comprised of a long cable roping an asteroid, trapped in geosynchronous orbit, to a floating platform on Earth
- Its length is 22,000 miles
- Humans would travel in drones through a giant cable connected to space
- Costs should be affordable
- Comparative costs: rockets cost millions of dollars per pound and the space elevator should cost only dollars per pound
- The innovator, UK architect Jordan William Hughes, believes bringing his award-winning concept, space elevator, to a reality is realistic but does concede the need for new materials.
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