Slovenian research part of new Adidas and Lululemon trainers

Sportswear manufacturers Adidas and Lululemon have applied the findings that Slovenian researchers have made about differences between human feet to design brand new pairs of women's trainers.

The Ljubljana-based Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI), the Swedish 3-D scanning company Volumental and the Ljubljana Faculty of Computer and Information Science have analysed more than one million scanned images of feet from people living in North America, Europe and Asia.

Their findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports in 2019, showed significant differences across regions and...