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Dave Golder

On reveals more details about sci-fi-esque, 3D-printed running shoe that won Boston Marathon

On Cloudboom Strike prototype running shoes.

When Kenya’s Hellen Obiri claimed victory at the Boston Marathon’s women’s race on Monday, she probably created more social media buzz about the running shoes she was wearing than the fact that she’d won it for the second consecutive year.

But then, they were some head-turning shoes, like something you’d expect Will Smith to be wearing in I, Robot (they certainly seemed to share some of the clean-lined, Apple-inspired robot aesthetics of that movie).

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