A new shoe developed by space agency Nasa could cut the incidence of pensioners falling over.

The innovative footwear, called the iShoe, is born out of technology used on astronauts when they return home from missions.

After months of weightlessness many experience severe balance problems, which are tracked through sensors to be analysed by doctors.

Now Erez Lieberman of Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his colleagues have put the same technology in a regular insole to track the wearers foot movements and allow medics to judge their likeliness of a fall in future.

It is thought the information could cut figures from the National Osteoporosis Foundation estimating 300,000 people – usually elderly – annually suffer hip fractures that are usually caused by falls.

Meanwhile, space and the distant stars have recently inspired another range of footwear too. Designer Swati Mehrotra teamed up with astrologers to release a line reflecting customers zodiac signs, reports the Indo-Asian News Service.

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