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New technology for Newton Running shoes

27/03/2007

The shoes feature the company’s Active Membrane Technology, which replaces the foam and plastic of traditional running shoes. The membrane is layered between four mid-sole actuators and four hollow chambers. On impact, these actuators stretch the membrane as they drive into the chambers in the sole, which absorb more shock than traditional running shoe foam creating a more cushioned feel, whilst the membrane thrusts the actuators back out of the chambers, returning the impact energy into forward propulsion during the toe-off phase of a runner’s stride,.

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