Energy-Generating Shoes Power iPods
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Nike PhotoiD Lets You Design Custom Shoes With Your Cameraphone
If you're feeling the kicks -- 1985 Dunk hightops, if you must know -- you can even buy them, which we figure is where things really start to get interesting. Creative on Nike's part, yes, but also a danger to the good sense of shoe-wearing shutterbugs everywhere. [Source: Nike via guardian.co.uk]
Running Shoes That Light The Way With Each Step
Do you run at night? We've found the shoe for you. Down dark alleys and through the murky underbrush (are you sure you really want to run in such places), your way will be lit with this concept shoe from the folks at Pioneer.
With each pavement pounding step, the shoes power up a small battery, which keeps a small light going, letting you see what's before your feet.
The concept seems familiar in a way to what the Toyota Prius does, garnering power with each step on the brakes to keep that battery charged (except on this small scale, the mechanism is, of course, tiny).
The other obvious reminder is of those shoes for kids that blink maddeningly with each step (except, of course, those are not self charging).
The LEDs on these feet wheels will keep going for 12 hours, according to what we can parse from the postings.
From Yanko Design.
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