High tech shoe generates electricity

They’re not stylish or practical, but these shoes developed by NTT are still pretty cool:

NTT Shoes

The shoes have a small generator attached to water-filled soles. Each step puts pressure on the soles, causing the water to spin a small turbine and generate power, NTT said. The futuristic shoes currently generate 1.2 watts of electricity, “a level sufficient to run an iPod mobile music player forever, as long as the wearer keeps walking,” said spokesman Hideomi Tenma.

10 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - October 18, 2008 at 4:26 am

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Rob A

These could easily be scaled and produced in a nice enclosure. Perhaps a good way to eliminate batteries.
ST

Ha-ha! A clever but silly idea. Not only can you probably not walk in these (water filled shoes??), you look like a dork, plus you will have to have extra long headphone wires running the length of your body if you plan on powering anything.
helical

If this technology becomes mainstream, I imagine the ideal shape of it would be the size of an insole so it could be used with any shoe. Maybe piezoelectric rather than water.
That, and “standards-compliant” pants having a connector by the ankle, wires sewn into the fabric, and another terminal by the hip so that you could clip whatever device by the belt and use it subtly without wires flopping inside.
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It certainly would be funny but not really convenient to have extra long headphone Wirths, I think this idea is simply just as well stay in our memory as a brilliant creation, but do not try to develop it as it will be the really fun.
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Good job
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