The elegant structure of a naturally evolved cat’s paw has inspired a new way to protect ... The idea is to replace the current kind of shoe soles with something more resembling what one can ...

If you're unfamiliar with the term, "toe beans" simply refers to the squishy pads on the underside of a cat's paws. Take a close ... not the soles of their feet like humans or dogs.

Meet Ray Horacek, the Tokyo-based designer of Puma Mobium, a new running shoe that mimics the movement of big cats. If we were to tell you that a cat’s foot opens and closes, expands and ...

It was also the inspiration for the Air Jordan 13, designed by Tinker Hatfield, as the sole unit of the shoe was made to resemble a cat’s paw. There was even an alternate Air Jordan 13 “Tinker ...