Entertainment Division
Jury Selections
Orphe: Smart Footwear
KIKUKAWA Yuya / KANAI Takaharu / MATSUBA Tomohiro / NAKANISHI Kyosuke
This is “smart footwear,” a wearable device in which a pair of sneakers contains some 100 individually controllable LEDs, a Bluetooth module, and a 9-axis motion sensor. The wearer can custom-design light colors and sounds emitted by the sneakers with a special smartphone app, as well as develop new applications with a software development kit (SDK).
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KIKUKAWA Yuya
Born in 1985 in Tottori Prefecture. CEO and Founder, no new folk studio inc.
KANAI Takaharu
Born in 1987 in Ibaraki Prefecture. CTO, no new folk studio inc.
MATSUBA Tomohiro
Born in 1987 in Osaka Prefecture. CDO, no new folk studio inc.
NAKANISHI Kyosuke
Born in 1990 in Kyoto Prefecture. CE, no new folk studio inc.