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ARRK makes musical shoes for Suzi Perry
07 Oct 2009
Rapid prototyping specialist ARRK Product Development Group was called in by Channel Five’s “The Gadget Show” to bring to life a pair of MP3 shoes.
The presenters of the show, Suzi Perry & Jason Bradbury, were each tasked with creating a wearable gadget of the future. With some ideas in mind they turned to product design and innovation consultants “Smallfry” to help make their ideas a reality. It was at this point that Suzi Perry’s team, having decided to develop a pair of futuristic MP3 shoes, approached ARRK to produce a number of prototype components to house all the necessary electronics within the soles of the high heeled shoes.
With both presenters competing against the clock and each other to come up with a winning gadget, once ARRK had received Suzi’s team’s CAD Data it quickly set about building a number of components for the shoes using its fleet of in-house stereolithography (SLA) and selective laser sintering (SLS) machines. Within hours of the builds being initiated the parts, built out of SLA’s high clarity resin and SLS’s glass filled nylon powder, a tough, durable material, were dispatched for final assembly.
With both presenters having to demonstrate their wearable gadgets in front of a live audience and judge, Suzi Perry’s MP3-playing shoes were chosen as the programme’s winning gadget.
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