[Wear-Hard] Another shoe-based power generator

Steve Barr barr8888 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 10 08:57:15 EDT 2007


http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/09/heelys-put-to-good-use-energy-harvesting/

"If you've ever visited a British shopping mall, you'll be aware that
there's a plague sweeping the formerly great nation: annoying little
kids riding around on their "Heelys," sneakers with wheels in the rear
of the heal. Christian Croft, obviously a frequent watcher of The
Matrix, thought to turn this mischievous toy into a force for good --
or, at the very least, a source of energy for our inevitable
overlords. The Energy Harvesting Derive is a project that plugs the
wheel into a mini-generator, which is in turn plugged into a small LCD
mounted above the toe of the shoe." [...]



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