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Shoes That Can Charge Smartphones with Footsteps

Ever been outside and like really needed to charge your phone. No outlet in sight and no one has a portable charger.. Not a problem anymore. A pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed a new invention that allows you to charge your phone by plugging it into your shoe. That's right, your shoe. Tom Krupenkin, a professor of mechanical...

Akon and Shell Unveil Human Powered Football Field

The large Gas company Shell, with the help of Akon, unveil a football field that provides light via human footsteps. With this groundbreaking idea thousands of people living in Africa would be able to have access to light. Akon explains that he grew up in a place where energy was scarce, so it makes sense that he would...