Kyle,
That's a good start; not so much the custom-fit shoes, but the fact that they keep the info on file.
In the case of my running shoes, I would like to see something much different. It's one thing to scan my foot and make a shoe that fits it perfectly. The problem is, my running shoe needs to perform, absorbing tremendous weight on each stride, plus allowing me to roll from where I strike the ground with my heel, across the mid foot, to the ball of my foot, and push off with flexibility and speed, all according to my peculiar asymmetrical body dynamics. So how to you measure all of those things and put them in a shoe designed just for me? Can you do it for a price I am willing to pay? Alternatively, can you create a software package that will allow me to experiment with different designs myself and have them made at the local Kinko's 3-D Korner or in the personal factory in my home?
In the meantime, I would at least like to see a running shoe Web site that allowed me to match my running and shoe-buying history with that of the shoe testers the running shoe companies use to help them design their shoes. In that way, I can at least figure out which shoe they are offering this month that I can wear, instead of having to buy four or five different unreturnable pairs of shoes to find one that suits me. If they can keep me healthy, I'll run more miles and buy more shoes.
Brock Hinzmann
Kyle Blake wrote:
>There is a sneaker company that custom produces sneakers from your >individual specs they have on file.
>Althought this is not widespread (or, I imagine, cheap) it may be that the >market is being seeded for mass customization. Customer expectation is a highly >powerful incentive for production innovations like rp/rm.
>
>Kyle Blake
>
>Brock Hinzmann wrote:
>Ken, How much extra for the bicycle seat would you be willing to pay to >have it custom made to your personal design specifications (which will >change as you lose wieght from all that exercise) at the Toys R Us or >Kinko's Korner Rapid Manufacturing Center, based on the personal data >you provide (by Internet or on a disk) and a design you choose from off >some designer's Web site or on the OEM's Web site and is downloaded to >the toy store or Kinko's? Does that matter to you or are you happy with >the mass-produced seat provided by the OEM?
>
>Morgan, Ken wrote:
>>Real estate is expensive.
>>Shelf space in stores is highly coveted by toy manufacturers.
>>Warehouse space and handling is an expense for the toy stores.
>>Space inside shipping containers is an expense especially when
>>those containers are coming across the ocean from Asia.
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>>I am happy to pay the toy stores $10 or $15 bucks a piece to assemble
>>the fleet of bikes and trikes I have purchased.
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>>Ken Morgan
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