Shoe $120

Type: tree | Size: small | Origin: Not Vans
COMPONENTS
UNI Sole
Sole Lock
PROBLEM

Feet needed a platform, not a product.

SOLUTION

The Shoe is the prototype footwear of the Not Vans platform: a base shoe built around the UNI Sole attachment interface and secured by the Sole Lock. On its own it is a perfectly good shoe. Its actual job is to be extended - every flavor of footwear in this forest inherits from it, swaps modules onto the sole, and ships without redrawing the shoe.

components

A low-profile piezoelectric mounting plate embedded in the midsole that serves as the universal attachment interface for all Hooves-compatible modules. Simultaneously harvests kinetic energy from each footstrike via crystalline lattice compression at the molecular level, storing charge in a flexible graphene supercapacitor woven into the insole. Walk anywhere. Power everything.

Inspect

A quarter-turn locking collar that secures any UNI Sole-compatible module to the shoe base. Rated for impacts, grinds, and activities the warranty specifically does not cover. Releases with one twist. Does not release on its own.

Inspect
Inputs
Outputs
TREE
AVAILABLE INPUTS
AVAILABLE OUTPUTS
Schema
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}

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