Students of the pre-university of Students of the pre-university of NRNU MEPhI and University Lyceum No. 1523 have developed sneakers that can show the way to the person who put them on their feet. Also, smart shoes are able to count steps and calories burned, the inventors say. Lyceum No. 1523 have developed sneakers that can show the way to the person who put them on their feet. Also, smart shoes are able to count steps and calories burned, the inventors say.

According to experts, the sneakers are connected via Bluetooth technology to the owner’s smartphone, which allows them to track the movement of a person along the intended route. If the owner needs to turn, his right or left shoe (depending on the direction of the turn) starts to vibrate.

The developers suggest that their development will reduce the likelihood of accidents on the road, since a person will not need to look at the smartphone screen while driving. According to scientists, it is likely that such sneakers in a few years will be able to compare in popularity with a smart watch.
It is worth noting that this is not the first project of “smart shoes” with similar functions, proposed in Russia. In August of the year before last, scientists of the Siberian Federal University and the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University presented shoes with an integrated navigation system that determines the coordinates of a person by the Earth's magnetic field. According to experts, shoes equipped with microelectromechanical sensors determine the coordinates of users no worse than GPS or GLONASS in a city, in a forest, and even underground, and the navigation system does not depend on radio waves or weather and does not require any antennas. As reported, the effectiveness of the developed personal navigation system was tested in a series of tests, including walking at an average speed in a closed path. The error in determining the location did not exceed 2.5 percent.

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