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Tennies' Street Lighting

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Contrasting the expense of putting up discrete lamp-posts and power-cabling, Tennies' Street Lights are recycled tennis shoes with powerful LED lights in the soles.

Powered by induction and switched by a daylight sensor, these high-fashion items are installed in the standard manner: tossing them up until they snag over a power line. If replacement is necessary, a pair of long-handled hedgetrimmers will bring the old ones down and a new set can be tossed up.

Also available with a solar-rechargeable battery for stringing garden lights or other unpowered cables.

FlyingToaster, Oct 03 2009

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       You dirty rat bastard. I was gonna post this! [+]
21 Quest, Oct 03 2009
  

       snooze ~ lose bro. What I like is that it's doable (though you'd probably have to bolo the shoes to wrap the "laces" around the wires a few times)
FlyingToaster, Oct 03 2009
  

       'Sokay. It's better off with you anway. If I'd posted it, it would never had gathered 5 buns this quickly. If it did, there would be at least 3 accompanying fishbones. It would've been picked apart and beaten to death...
21 Quest, Oct 03 2009
  

       and this week's Optimism Award goes to...
FlyingToaster, Oct 05 2009
  
      
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