{"id":126478,"date":"2021-08-19T10:22:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/protocell-trainers-made-from-3d-printed-protocells"},"modified":"2021-08-19T10:22:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:22:24","slug":"protocell-trainers-made-from-3d-printed-protocells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/protocell-trainers-made-from-3d-printed-protocells","title":{"rendered":"Protocell trainers made from 3D-printed protocells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/protocell-trainers-made-from-3d-printed-protocells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2013<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/wearable-futures\/\"><strong>Wearable Futures<\/strong>:<\/a> London designer and researcher Shamees Aden is developing a concept for running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/shoes\/\">shoes<\/a> that would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/3d-printing\/\">3D-printed<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/synthetic-biology\/\">synthetic biological<\/a> material and could repair themselves overnight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shameesaden.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shamees Aden<\/a>\u2019s Protocells trainer would be 3D-printed to the exact size of the user\u2019s foot from a material that would fit like a second skin. It would react to pressure and movement created when running, puffing up to provide extra cushioning where required.<\/p>\n<p>Aden developed the project in collaboration with Dr Martin Hanczyc, a professor at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdu.dk\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Southern Denmark<\/a> who specialises in protocell technology. Protocells are very basic molecules that are not themselves alive, but can be combined to create living organisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2013 Wearable Futures: London designer and researcher Shamees Aden is developing a concept for running shoes that would be 3D-printed from synthetic biological material and could repair themselves overnight. Shamees Aden\u2019s Protocells trainer would be 3D-printed to the exact size of the user\u2019s foot from a material that would fit like a second skin. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}