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Ugly Sneakers Generate Power While You Walk

Submitted by TreeHugger on Tuesday, 21 October 2008No Comment

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There is nothing worse than running out of juice on your cellphone or iPod when you are out walking the streets. NTT appears to have solved this problem; water-filled soles are attached to a small turbine. With every squishy step you take, the water is pumped through the turbine which runs the generator which generates 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. Japan Probe via Tokyo Mango</a

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