Sexy GPS Shoes

What an oddly creative idea – The Aphrodite Project have come up with the ‘Sexy GPS Platform shoe‘ (which really isn’t sexy at all IMHO). The shoes have GPS built in and a small screen (for showing adverts or other info) and are intended for use by ‘sex workers’ (or prossies to the layman (sic)). I kinda think the safety aspect is both cool, interesting and flawed. Flawed as I can see the first thing anyone in trouble will do is loose a shoe thus rendering them pointless but interesting as it was inspired by something that’s fascinated me since I was studying Latin aand Ancient Greek at school – that ancient prostitutes (that in ancient times, not just very aged whores) would wear sandals with words printed on the soles of their shoes with phrases such as ‘follow me’ left in the dirt as they walked – a rudimentary form of temprorary grafitti advertising.