3D Printed Mens and Womens Shoes? Feetz.com is Doing It!

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Lucy Beard, founder of Feetz.com, talks 3D printed shoes, for both men and women. This is a fun, fascinating, and applicable interview (if you possess a pair of feet, that is) to everyone on planet Earth. Lucy says, at Feetz, you aren't size X, you are size YOU…
…and Feetz' 3D printed sneakers / shoes are likely to fit you better and more closely and comfortably than any shoe you've ever worn previously in your life.
Feetz' app requires 3 quick pictures of your feet to create a custom, 3D model that, when sent to Feetz, creates a pair of custom 3D-printed shoes you're going to love.
Lucy discusses strange-shaped toes, wide feet, people with one foot bigger than the other, and why 20% of the world's population suffers from shoes that don't fit them nearly as well as they could.
You are going to love this interview, as I did. Listen, review, and share this podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:08.0	Future Technologies Boys To Transform Our Lives, for better or worse, are the focus of this podcast. Almost here
0:14.3	means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. We're just around the
0:18.8	corner from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:27.0	Hi this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast almost here around, Around the Corner Technology.
0:33.0	Today I've got a fun interview with Lucy Beard, the founder and Chief
0:37.8	Kobler of feats.com, F-E-E-T-Z.com. They 3D-print shoes. How you doing Lucy?
0:45.0	I'm good. How are you Richard?
0:47.0	Yeah, good. I'm looking forward to this interview. I think it's going to be really interesting and fun.
0:52.0	And I love the concept you guys have. How did you
0:56.8	get into this? What's your what's your background? Yeah my background I'm a mathematician so I have been doing things like being an
1:04.4	actuary where I predicted life insurance like who was going to die and then I
1:08.8	was on like text analysis and social media gaming like a Zinga where I would mine all the data
1:14.8	every time you click something so I've always been involved in like tons of data
1:18.8	but the meat started with more of much more simple problem.
1:23.7	I went shoe shopping one day and had to try on like 10 pairs of shoes and couldn't find anything
1:28.9	that fit.
1:29.9	And I just got frustrated and I said, I'm done. and I walked out of the shoe store and I
1:34.2	walked next door to Starbucks coffee and I walked right in and said you know what I'll
1:38.2	have a double milk shot extra hot soy milk and I've watched as they could make 87,000 combinations of coffee from two little machines.
1:47.0	And I suddenly had that light bulb moment where I said, hold on, why is my coffee more customizable than my shoes?
1:55.0	And that for me was like the start of this journey of saying,
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