After a recent meeting with our team, Backwards in High Heels, and our teacher/mentor Ms. Miesner, we came to the sudden realization that our product design so far (a high heeled shoe insole as seen below) was no different from many of the other insoles currently out on the market. We'd originally tried to make... Continue Reading →
Relearning the 3-D modeling world – Amelia Fisher
One of the only reasons I decided I wanted to become an engineer was because of my love for 3-D modeling. I discovered my enjoyment for it back in 9th and 10th grade when we designed 3-D objects on Auto CAD and Google Sketch-Up. However, I'd recently taken a gap year of sorts where I... Continue Reading →
Tying it Together – Oceane Maher
This week was all about taking our idea, research and interviews and putting them all together into a memorandum. This gives us a nice visual of all of the work we've done so far, and it's far more practical to have everything all in one place. In order to create our memorandum, we had to... Continue Reading →
The biomedical side of shoe discomfort – Sophie Penniman
We all know that heels are bad for our feet, and that our feet tend to hurt after wearing high heels. According to the American Osteopathic Association, statistics show that high heels are one of the biggest factors leading to foot problems in women, with up to a third suffering permanent problems as a result of... Continue Reading →