Charge Your Cell Phone w/Your Feet?

[3113]

From here:

Mobile phone users need not fear running out of power at festivals this summer thanks to the launch of thermoelectric rubber boots (or wellies in the UK) that charge your mobile phone using heat from your feet. These could come in very handy when hiking, camping, or engaging in other activities that lend themselves to wearing boots but not to power outlets.

The hi-tech boots convert heat created by the feet into an electrical current using a unique "power-generating sole". Orange created the boots with the help of renewable energy experts GotWind and will showcase them at the Glastonbury Festival, which it sponsors, later this month. Twelve hours of stomping through the event, infamous for its muddy setting, will produce enough power from the Orange Power Wellies to power a mobile phone for one hour. But the makers recommend taking the boots to the dance tents as the hotter your feet get, the more energy they create.

I dunno. How about a pair of sandals?

http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/replicate/EXID42287/images/wellies.jpg

 

[TxRad]

Some lady somewhere will rig a pair of these to her vibrator and she won't know if she's coming or going and won't care.

FREE PLOT BUNNY

 

[jomar]

I wuold think adapting a hat would be better and save the boots as backup.

http://www.chinawholesalegift.com/pic/Hats-and-Caps/Solar-Fan-Cap/Mono%28Multi%29crystalline-Solar-Fan-Cap-19420634810.jpg

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Jomar has it right, especially for those of us who don't live in climates where Wellies are of any use more than two or three times a year . . . whether I'm raindancing or not!

 

[3113]

I wuold think adapting a hat would be better and save the boots as backup.

http://www.chinawholesalegift.com/pic/Hats-and-Caps/Solar-Fan-Cap/Mono%28Multi%29crystalline-Solar-Fan-Cap-19420634810.jpg

That would make ya look like a dork!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

That would make ya look like a dork!

And wondering around with your cell phone constantly in your ear doesn't?

 

[jomar]

A dork, huh!

Well, there are options...

http://www.uberreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/solar_powered_pith.jpg

http://z.about.com/d/weirdnews/1/0/m/A/-/-/Weird_Fashion_21.jpg

 

[Weird Harold]

From here:

I dunno. How about a pair of sandals?

http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/replicate/EXID42287/images/wellies.jpg

Maybe platform sandals?

Something sounds fishy about the technology as described in what you quoted.

It seems to me that the technology in wind-up radios and flashlights (which often include cell phone charger cables and the capability to generate an hours worth of phone charge quickly) would be easier to fit into footwear.

I'm pretty sure that there's quite likely plenty of salty sweat in the bottom of those Wellies to use as an elctrolyte in a bi-metal battery type system.

While there's a lot of heat generated in rubber boots, (or perhaps eventually somthing more stylish, like waterproof hiking boots) the company must have made a tremendous breakthrough in thermocouple technology (converting heat directly into electricity) to pack enough into even a size sixteen insole to be converting Heat into electricity cheaply enough to make a viable cellphone charger.

Would be wonderful if they have made that kind of breakthrough with direct heat to electricity conversion but I can think of a lot of places it could be used more effectively than an ugnly cell phone charging system.

 

[fieryjen]

http://z.about.com/d/weirdnews/1/0/m/A/-/-/Weird_Fashion_21.jpg

You know, I would totally wear that.

 

[michchick98]

http://z.about.com/d/weirdnews/1/0/m/A/-/-/Weird_Fashion_21.jpg

Charge a cellphone, hell! She doesn't need those boots! She can probably get HBO on that hat!