15 year old, Angelo Casimiro, has invented a device that charges your phone as you walk.
With these phone charging shoes, when the wearer jumps, runs or walks, the pressure to a pair of discs inside the shoes produces energy.
This energy can then be used to charge your phone or any other device via USB port.
This invention was aimed at people who are constantly on the go or who live in remote areas with no regular access to electricity.
However, the shoes require a lot of movement to completely charge most devices. An estimated 8 hours of running to charge a lithium-ion battery and 2 hours of playing basketball to give the average cell phone about 10 minutes of charge.
There is still a lot of room for Angelo to improve his device, and he has entered his invention in the “Global Online Science and Technology Competition” of the 2014 Google Science Fair in the hope to do just that!
Article written by D Mulhern
19 Responses
I WANT 1!!!
cool I want one
how did he get the idea to make wow this is the best invention i have seen
inventions are very weird these days
That’s weird but cool
🙂
can it charge the shoes
I think that is a pretty smart Idea but what if it rains, does that effect the discs in the shoe?
I really want a phone!! I just need one!!!! I would buy one when i get a phone!!!!:)
woah! i want one!
cool very smart chinese/koren/Japaense People are so smart
I like it
awesome I want one
i need one of dem
Wow
that’s a cool idea 🙂 You can charge ipods with a banana and a pear as well !
haha i might try it
I might try it too look cool
Room for improvement, yes, but it’s a really great idea
that is pretty cool
Dang if only i had a phone to fit the shoe