Love the concept behind these shoes designed by British designer Dominic Wilcox.

The pair of ‘No Place Like Home GPS Shoes’, has a GPS system embedded in the heel of one of the shoes, an antenna in the other one and LEDs in both of the toes, leading you home where ever you are..

‘I was commissioned by the Global Footprint project in Northamptonshire, a place famous for shoe making, to create some shoes. I decided to make a pair of shoes that can navigate you to anywhere you wish to travel to. I thought about the Wizard of Oz and how Dorothy could click her shoes together to go home. After uploading your required destination to the shoes via a piece of custom made mapping software and a USB cable, the GPS, which is embedded in the heal, is activated by a heal click. It then communicates to the wearer via a ring of LED lights to point in the required direction. The shoe with the GPS wirelessly communicates with the right shoe that has a progress bar of lights to show how close you are to the destination.’ Dominic Wilcox

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Ilja Keizer / Editor-in-Chief at the leading Dutch online arts & inspiration magazine / photographer at Ilja Keizer Photography / creative and online consultancy / art-direction / living & working in the Netherlands / twitter / website

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