Design Monitoring

I don't see a lot of innovation in the footwear design space, outside of shoes targeted at athletes that boast some interesting-looking, but probably cockamamie, performance-boosting feature. So I was excited when Vibram came out with their Furoshikis, which borrowed the idea of a Japanese wrapping cloth (Westerners: Think of the bundle on the end of a cartoon hobo's stick) and applied it to footwear. It seemed intriguing, an outsole bonded to flexible wings that you wrap comfortably around…