When you were a child, you must have been interested in those luminous shoes, and those flashing lights were activated by the pressure at your feet.

The lights are not interesting at all.

Orphe, a pair of shoes developed by No New Folk studio, a Japanese start-up company, is currently looking for supporters of Indiegogo. These programmable shoes are equipped with 100 full-color serial control LED lights, advanced motion sensors and wireless Bluetooth modules, designed to enhance and become part of your dance moves.

The LED lights on the shoes allow users to program and design the interaction of lights, dance actions and sounds. The lights can be controlled through two steps: the first step is to connect the application and shoes by Bluetooth; the second step, the user can use the application program to program the shoes, and make corresponding response according to the movement of the wearer.

No New Folk studio said, "Orphe lights can be set to change with the speed and direction of dancer movement, thus showing various forms of performance."

Embedded in each

The 9 axis sensor will detect the movement of each shoe in real time. The data can then be used to control various external devices in wireless mode, allowing shoes to be used as musical instruments, electronic games handles and foot switches.

At the same time, No New Folk also wants all users to design their own macros and share their shoes with the community.

More important than money, they need people to take part in, and use these tools to create new forms of artistic expression together.

They also hope that as more and more people of different professions participate in the creation of performance art, not only dancers and musicians, but also developers and designers, their technology can produce a new audio-visual expression culture.

These shoes have been developed in the tradition.

The company's assistance has overcome the challenge of integrating shoes and electronics.

No New Folk provides pure black and pure white shoes, allowing LED lamps to achieve the best results.

Each pair of shoes is built with a small circuit board. The circuit board contains a ARM Cortex-M3 microprocessor, a InvenSense MPU-9150 nine axis motion tracking device, a Bluetooth wireless module and a charging circuit, and a high-density LED lamp belt around the sole.

The No New Folk team hopes to launch a SDK to facilitate users to create their own software.

This pair of shoes can also be purchased at the price of $270 early bird on Indiegogo, and the retail price of shoes will be $330, which is expected to be shipped in December of this year.

If you are interested in these shoes, you may wish to support them on their public chips.