What is the “Digital Light Synthesis” technology on Futurecraft 4D and why is adidas using it?

Last week adidas officially introduced 4D Futurecraft sneaker technology to the world. The German brand has also introduced the technology as the world’s first way to incorporate light and oxygen using digital synthesis – Digital Light Synthesis, a technology pioneered by Carbon.

However, these concepts are really confusing. So what exactly is this technology and why does adidas use it?

With this new technology, adidas is aiming to enhance the performance of sneakers, especially cross-sport versions by refactoring the buffer. This means that adidas has turned the entire midsole part of the shoe into one seamless piece through the use of 3D printing, although this is still a very expensive and impractical method to manufacture. series. Not to mention the process of designing and manufacturing shoes with 3D printing technology takes a lot of time and requires a lot of materials.

Finally, adidas has found a solution to these problems when combined with Carbon, which owns a very modern 3D printing method called Digital Light Synthesis.

“With Digital Light Synthesis technology, we are able to overcome the limits of reductance, opening up a new era in design and manufacturing.” Says Eric Liedlke, executive board member of the adidas board of directors responsible for international brands. “Once we get the information from the athletes’ performance data, combined with the technologies that adidas currently owns, we can unleash our creativity with many very impressive products. like what you can see here ”.

Thanks to the amazing innovations coming from Carbon, adidas was able to go through a lot of prototype tests and midsole performance tests during the design phase before achieving such success.

In addition, Carbon has supported adidas immensely in the development of this new product. A technology research and development plant has been built at the headquarters to accelerate the design and synthesis of materials as well as the production of prototypes before moving to Adidas.

To describe more about the materials and structures used for Futurecraft 4D: the shoes have a liquid base that is synthesized from light to create the shape, then use high temperature to form a solid shape. After many tries, Carbon has developed an extremely elastic and sturdy material for Futurecraft 4D – which adidas has been waiting for.

In addition to cost reduction, this new technology of Carbon helps to increase production time, ensure adidas product development progress as well as consumer needs. Hopefully with what Adidas has achieved with Futurecraft 4D, we will soon see with our own eyes the amazing ability this new buffer brings in the near future.

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