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Rechargeable Boots
Fancypants writes: "ABCNews.com has posted an article about a Menlo Park, CA company that is developing boots that generate power. Imagine charging your cell phone by walking to class." Seems as if we've done a story before on shoes that generate electricity, but I sure don't see it in the archives.
Now those little blinking lights on my cool Nike shoes can go on forever!!
-Berj
You could make a shoe that smells your feet and applies deodorant when needed... wow
Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity
This boots could generate the initial energy needed by this Hydrogen-Based Rotary Engine, and with that the uptime of this IBM Linux clock would be astonishing (and with that kind of energy, imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!)!
/. closes the circle!
This things do not happen be accident... people moan but eventually
... would that be sole-ar powered?
Doh!
... prototype boot generates about half a watt of power -- more than enough energy to recharge the boot's built-in battery and a cell phone
Babelfish + ear = Translation.
Boot + ass = statement.
Boot + ear = ???
No, I don't think it's going to be a hit.
I'd like to know how much power you can actualy get out of these boots. Charging a cellphone does not need much, but providing just enough for the discman only when you are running would be pretty incentive for us nerds to do some sports, huh?
"But will they run Linux"
(Insert jokes about bootstrapping, etc....)
Tom.
Oh arse
"Baby, when I kiss you, it makes my toes tingle."
"Oh, John, John, I want...Wait a minute! Are you wearing those boots again?"
"My feet were cold, hon. That's all. Cold feet. They don't mean a thing to me."
"I knew it. You were kissing me, but you were thing of them. You've been running around on me. You heel. You're nothing but a leather whore"
"No, baby, honest. It's not like that at all. Sure, the boots and me were an item once, but we're just friends now. C'mon, baby. Can't a guy have friends?"
"You can have all the damned friends you want, John. I'm leaving you. Oh, and just so you'll know: I'm stopping by the shoe store on my way out."
"No-o-o-o-o-o!!!!"
Wire in a 20V 1A cap. put it on one of those trick handshake things.
Go to a Micro$oft convention.
Drop 'em like fly's
"Hi my name is.... oops dosen't matter"
hehe
Just push it and it will... Er. Wait a minute. Dang, back to the drawing board.
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