Inventor Gets Smart About Shoe Phone
In the days of modern cellular technology, the idea of having an Agent 86-style phone inside a shoe might not seem particularly advanced.
But Paul Gardner-Stephen, who first developed his device as an amateur theatre prop, insists there are practical and technological advantages.
It seems the shoe phone might offer extended battery life and could even be used in medical applications to detect falls or other medical emergencies and automatically call for help.
“Relaying voice communications via a shoe is technologically similar to relaying medical data for remote patient monitoring, such as pulse, blood pressure, blood oxygenation and so forth,” Dr Gardner-Stephen said.
“And a shoe is a good location for housing the electronics required for storing and communicating these measurements.
“Secondly, because our feet, and therefore our shoes, conduct large forces as we stand and walk, energy can be harvested to charge the device during ordinary activity.
“A shoe-based device would not only be easy to wear, it could run significantly longer between battery charges.”
Photo by Columbia Broadcasting System.
Jaclyn on January 30th, 2009 5:07 pm
I don’t see it as a surprise at all that now there is a shoe phone. with all of the different phones out there and different thing’s that they can do, you can get one in your car, boat, plane, etc. it’s no wonder that now they are coming up with even newer and stylish thing’s such as a shoe phone, they have to keep thinking up new phones in order to out do the previous one’s.
cassy on February 8th, 2009 4:20 pm
jaclyn is right its not a big surprise,coz all now are possible with the help of technology,there are many inevntors now who has a different ideas about anew invention that is why every year there a new phone coming out and eny electroninc device,that because of the high technology the we have now,all now are possible to make with the help of our great inventors!
Kristy A. Bennett on February 19th, 2009 7:04 pm
I think you have both missed the point of this article. This phone design has a huge potential in respect to medical and aged care unlike other designs that exist purely for fashion.
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