Filipino Teen Creates Shoes That Can Charge A Phone By Walking

Filipino Teen Creates Shoes That Can Charge a Phone by Walking

A 15-year-old with an insatiable thirst for science has developed shoes that can charge your phone or any USB-powered device by simply walking.

Angelo Casimiro lives in the Philippines, a country still recovering from last fall’s Typhoon Haiyan.

“A lot of people are still suffering from poverty,” he says in a YouTube video in which he demonstrates his invention. Some people have no access to electricity, he adds. For them, “a simple source of light is big,” he says.

Now Angelo is creating a new way to generate power. He placed two pairs of physio-electric discs on the insole of each shoe. The discs produce energy when any type of pressure is placed on them. That energy is then channeled to a USB port, which an electronic device can plug in to.

“My insole generator does not use coils, motors, magnets, or anything that involves moving parts,” he explains. “We have a pair (of physio-electric discs) mounted back-to-back. When you make back-to-back pairs, you’re able to harvest twice the power.” (Read more)

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Note from truebluemeandyou: This post and blog no longer exist on Tumblr. If anyone knows if the blog has a new name or moved to a new platform, please message me. See my post here to see the original post with printables.

Behold, a library of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books in an Altoids tin! I originally found this project at this post by @nashiil-and-kiilan, and as they also put up the templates for it I thought I’d try it myself. It turned out pretty neat! I decided to leave out some of the details on the decorations, but I’m still pleased with how it came out.