Solar Powered Shoes

Keywords: green-technology

Source: eccoterre

Using the included solar cells and LEDs, any set of sneakers can be quickly finessed into surreal garden or street lighting. The kit comes in two sizes—kid and adult—and is available with white or colored (”mood-changing”) lights. Toss one on the ground to illuminate the doorway of your home at night, or fling a pair into a tree—in the spirit of shoe-tossing—to puzzle passers-by.

Both entries of this week are related to the new energy generating technology. Interestingly, both technology look at improving the walking experience of pedestrians, and transform the walking energy into electricity. This idea is great in that it not only create another way to generate electricity, but the energy generated is directly used for improving the pedestrians' walking experience, which may further more encourage more people to use walking as their priliminary means of transportation.
These two designs also call up our attention on much energy we used on lighting the streets at night. It is a inconsiderable amount of energy but for the safty reason we cannot it. Generating electricity by pedestrians themselves solve the problem of keeping street lights on all the time. Maybe we can extend this techonoly even to cars and other vehicles, build in electricity generating panel on the streets and highway so that light only turns on when there are cars passing by.