Using footsteps to generate power for your wearables? It’s possible!

How often do you find yourself away from a charger running somewhere only to find your wearable device dying on you? This new idea might help on that front.

This principle, Sole power, comes from 15-year old Angelo Casimiro, who presented the idea as a part of Google Science Fair. The idea is quite simple and yet genius; power devices by walking or running. As long as footsteps are involved you’re good to go. You could power anything you have on you or at least make it last longer that it would otherwise.

It would use a generator that would be embedded in the soles of your shoes utilizing 2 pieces of piezo-electric plates. Those plates would generate energy when the crystal bends and thus add energy to a battery they’re connected to via USB.

This concept could exactly keep your smartphones alive considering it would take approximately 2 hours of basketball in order to charge your iPhone to last 10 minutes. Smaller devices would also benefit. Smart wearables like watches and fitness bands, as you know, need way less power.

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What do you think of all this? Would you use something like this is produced properly?

VIA: Connectedly