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Hotshoes
Battery charger/eliminator, for Type A personalities | |
The soft whirring of precision machinery filled the room, amidst gasps and small, excited yelps of encouragement.
The two performers were doing it standing up, using laser pointers and a number of high tech gadgets usually only seen in movies of a certain genre.
Fourteen seated men and women
were watching, in varying degrees of rapt attention and fascinated admiration. The performance, teetering gently on the edge of completion, came to a climax, and the furious jiggling under the table came to an end.
As one, they rose to their feet in applause, punching the air and high-fiving each other. Simultaneously, the screen upon which the performance was shown flickered sporadically into darkness. The flywheels in the heels of their specially designed shoes were no longer generating enough power to run the video projector, though their notebooks would run for another hour or so, on the charge each had received.
This was the perfect group upon whom to test the devices, as they were all go-get-em sales types. You know, the ones who just can't sit still; who sit in meetings furiously jiggling one or both legs up and down.
All of that wasted energy, put to use, with a simple bellows arrangement mounted on the sole of a shoe, and the innards out of a windup toy car, shoehorned into the heel block. An early prototype.
http://www.halfbake...ornhound_20_27Puter [UnaBubba, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Piezo shoes
http://www.halfbake.../idea/Piezo_20shoes Closely related idea by [rayfo] [krelnik, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Pizza Shoe
http://www.halfbake...dea/Pizza_20Shoe_99 Type A With Extra Sausage [DeathNinja, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Yes, a response to [kbecker]'s request. |
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Now, whataryagonnado about the wasted energy of high-fiving? |
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Transmission lines run up the arm, and connect to the next hand, by way of a contact pad in the palm of the hand. |
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When hands are held around a table, the circuit is made. Otherwise, power is stored in the CAPacitor hat (soon to be released). If you intentionally discharge one of these onto the person of another you may be charged, by the powers that be, for assault with battery*. |
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*Take note: Andrea Deicke. |
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"You know, the ones who just can't sit still; who sit in meetings furiously jiggling one or both legs up and down."
Someone's been spying on me! |
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Although I do appreciate the creative presentation, I fail to see how this is really significantly different from the linked idea by [rayfo]. (Other than avoiding the over-used "p-word"). |
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Exactly. It's not piezo, which wouldn't generate this much energy. I am fully aware of the limitations of piezo, and avoided it because it wouldn't work, in this application. |
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In my opinion, whether its piezo or mechanical or something else seems like a trivial implementation detail. The core of this idea is to convert otherwise wasted body motion into electricity. |
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I've never considered implementation details that important, indeed they often mutate in the annotations. Ah well. |
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Oh look! Here's a nit you missed! |
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Actually I don't like picked nits, I prefer them canned. |
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Would that be a nitpicking basket? |
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Very nice description [UB], are you a sales type? |
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Sort of, I guess... more of a hyperactive, entrepreneurial type. Everything is sales, when the dust settles, I figure. |
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