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No more wobbling and tottering as you navigate obstacles in uncomfortable high heels. These shoes will provide you with a stable, balanced platform, elevated over the terrain. With the grace of a giraffe on the savannah, you’ll glide forward as your feet seem to effortlessly skate on air.
The secret
is a powerful battery, motor and 12,000 rpm spinning, dense disc hidden in each sole. This allows a central, supporting stiletto and an upper sole designed casually level or flatteringly raised at the heel. Experience a carefree, stunning stroll wearing the future of footwear fashion.
sketch
http://www.geocitie....html?1073211251108
[FarmerJohn, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Gyro Piezo Pogo
http://www.halfbake...Gyro_20Piezo_20Pogo
Thanks [FJ], [Gromit] [Worldgineer, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
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And if you do trip, you'll fall sideways. |
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Awesome. Bound to be loved by foot fetishists. Love the sketch. |
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Dunno, I keep them in the closet. |
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for some reason I thought you're talking about weapons. Maybe you are? + |
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I think you need to combine shoes and clocks somehow. |
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Seems like if you did fall, you'd be in for a massively sprained ankle. |
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This precariously poised, precision precession prototype provides premium prostration prevention.
Plus provided, pending prestidigitation proceedings. |
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Super! Self-stabilizing shoes should see standard service. Shirley, similar semi-stilletto suppliments should seem silly! |
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A note of concern -- will the gyro mechanism be so powerful as to make certain things....impossible? |
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I'd wear 'em... except for the fact that I'd probably knock my head on the ceiling... (I'm 5' 11'') |
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"the grace of a giraffe on the savannah" - actually, giraffes have a weird prehistoric gait on the open range, with their necks and heads going back and forth as they run. Not sure that's an effect you'd particularly want, whether you come out of the closet or not. |
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I wonder if precession would make it difficult to change your step direction. |
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Why just high-heeled shoes? What no gyro-wellington boots from the Farmer? |
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[waugsqueke] - only for turning in one direction. |
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what happens if you step on the cat? |
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Cat-aclysmic cat-astrophe! |
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Dance-dance Revolutions would start-up everywhere. |
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Does this mean you *couldn't* fall down? |
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"I'm all gryoscopic left feet." |
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Speaking of which, although the drawing indicates a battery these would be much more fun if powered by piezoelectics. If you stop hopping you start spinning. |
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(Idea generation sequence has began. One minute to idea initiation... idea initiation complete. See link for results.) |
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But what kind of weight will she (or he) be putting out on that one small point of a shoe. Think of it as opposite to snow shoes. You would leave dents in the linoleum floor. |
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spell checked by microsovt. |
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