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Nike PHOTOid: Design Awesome Kicks Inspired By Your Instagrams

Oh, this shoe? It doesn’t just look like that burger you had for lunch the other day, it was directly inspired by it, thanks to Nike PHOTOid, which lets you customise your kicks based on the colour scheme of your Instagram pics.


These Crazy Nike Shoes Look Like They’re Made For Outer Space Aliens

Because this year’s NBA All-Star Game is in Houston and because Houston is home to the Mission Control centre (and because Nike loves to have an excuse to make special edition sneakers), Nike is designing shoes that look like they’re from outer space. They’d look great on aliens.


Air Jordan XX8 First Look: These Are the New Air Jordans, Suckers!

Acclaimed movie director Spike Lee and legendary Nike designer Tinker Hatfield have just revealed the 28th iteration of Nike’s iconic Air Jordan line. Here’s a first look at the kicks sneakerheads worldwide will be dying to get their hands on.


Nike LunarTR1+ Review: The Physical Trainer Strapped To Your Feet

I haven’t played basketball in years. I don’t even exercise regularly. I love air conditioning. I explain all this to D-TRAINED, a Nike physical trainer, on a soul-sapping hot day. He ignores my slob story and runs me through a gruelling series of drills. Afterward, with my hands melting into my knees, D-TRAINED walks over and hands me an iPhone — and it shows me what I really did.


Nike And Facebook Team Up To Fulfil Your Childhood Footwear Fantasies

A new app on Facebook, called Nike Shoe Boxxx, allows fans of the brand to fulfil all their wildest footwear fantasies by creating a virtual platform to collect and trade 40 years’ worth of the label’s iconic sneakers.


Teaching Sneakers: The Ultimate Dancin’ Shoes

Industrial designer Tom Sykes, of the Loughborough Design School at England’s Loughborough University, is the recipient of the 2012 James Dyson Foundation Bursary for his “GroundWave Shadow Trainer”. It’s a sneaker prototype that teaches you how to dance.


How To Legally Rob A Bank

Sneakers, the film about a team of hackers and social engineers who break into banks just to test their security, isn’t just a film. People really do get to do that for a living — people like Moran Cerf. Here’s how he held up a bank without breaking a law.


This Stormtrooper Helmet Is Made Completely Out Of Sneakers

This helmet was made for Star Wars Remix out of actual Adidas Star Wars skate shoes. It’s completely fit to wear. You can even buy it. I think I just might, too.


My Shoe Heaven Is In This Store

Am I alive? That’s what I thought when I saw pictures of this Sneakerology store in Sydney, Australia. See I have an inordinate amount of love for sneakers and shoes, and this store layout – ash;which is very museum-like – is perfect


Doomsday Sneaker Speakers Will Destroy The World One Foot At A Time

You could almost imagine the story behind the Sneaker Speakers from Sneaker Freaker magazine being a long lost Dr Seuss story, but the truth is a lot more entertaining. Created by sneaker artist Nash Money with input from underground hip-hop artists MF Doom for Sneaker Freaker magazine, the Doomsday Sneaker Speakers are working speakers embedded in the world’s largest pair of Puma shoes.