Feel Like Walking? Save Your Energy

by WiredBerries Editors — October 2, 2007

As inhabitat reports, pounding the pavement in your sneakers requires energy, and unfortunately, all that kinetic energy is mostly lost to the ground....until now. Two students have devised a scheme to turn regular sneakers into energy-generating machines using a mini-generator and a tiny micro-computer. Now if they could just find a way to make comfortable and energy-generating Mary Jane pumps.