Teenager Invents Electricity Generating Footwear

A teenage boy from the Philippines expressed his idea for a greener world by developing a footwear that generates electricity as you walk.

Angelo Casimiro’s footwear will generate power that can be used to charge your phone or any small battery-powered device.

“Electricity is generated using an insole generator that is made out of two pairs of piezoelectric discs, which produce energy when the crystal bend inward,”explains Casimiro in his entry video. The generator is soldered to the battery of a power bank, which can then be used to plug in any device through a USB connection.

This electricity harvesting footwear was Casimiro’s entry to Google’s Science Fair this year. You can find his step-by-step instructions at Instructables.

Similar to Casimiro’s concept, there are other power-generating in-shoe concepts – the SolePower that stores the energy released in each steps as usable electrical power; the InStep NanoPower which has the same concept but with the integration of Wi-Fi hot spot that acts as a ‘middleman’ between mobile devices and a wireless network which will then reduce power consumption of wireless mobile devices.

Sources: Instructables, IFLScience