This New Foot Scanner Can Tell You Everything About Your Feet

After two years of development, Aetrex Worldwide Inc. will unveil the latest update to its iStep foot scanner, and this new version represents a major leap in the technology. The new scanning system, dubbed Albert, consists of a device that, like previous iterations, can measure pressure and sizing. It also conducts 3-D imaging, assesses pronation and has the ability to track gait.  According to the firm, other devices on the market might measure one or more of these things, but never so many in a single system. “This project has taken a long time for us to develop because we’ve created something that’s never been done before,” said Larry Schwartz, CEO of Teaneck, N.J.-based Aetrex. The entire system was built in-house at Aetrex’s technology division in Israel, by a team that consisted of three software developers, a hardware engineer, an optical specialist and a mathematician. Their first step was to reinvent the scanning device itself. “The hard thing about developing hardware, compared with shoes, orthotics or even software, is when you’re creating something new, there are a lot of challenges,” said Schwartz. “But the mandate to the team was, we want to capture everything.” The Albert scanner — a round device about 30 inches in diameter that sits on the

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