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Rechargeable Boots

Posted by michael on from the ground-pounder dept.

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.

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  1. electric shoes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/22/183825 1&mode=thread

  2. It all fits together... by fsmunoz · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!)!

    This things do not happen be accident... people moan but eventually /. closes the circle!

  3. Old hat by tomknight · · Score: 5, Informative
    (or should I say old shoe....?)

    The Electric Shoe Company sells these (or rather, a verion of them).

    Tom.

    --
    Oh arse
  4. Parasitic power by joel.neely · · Score: 5, Informative

    The good folks at the MIT Media Lab (especially under the Things That Think research program) have been researching such things for years.
    The July/August issue of IEEE Micro contains several articles on their work, including one on parasitic power.