Orange Power Wellies

One of the top 10 invention in 2010 includes Orange Power Wellies,they are created in collaboration with renewable energy experts ‘Got Wind’.A unique feature of this incredible Orange Power Wellies is that it converts heat energy from the feet into electric energy which is need of everyone today.

Looking strange..!! Obvious, but its true. Now all these sweaty feet can be used to charge up the devices like mobile.. In fact, about 12 hours of stomping around can give enough of a charge a mobile phone for near about an hour. It depends on your feet how hot it is. Seriously the hotter your feet more electricity you can extracted. So don’t worry for battery back now.
How it works:

After a full days festival frolics one can plug your phone into the power output at the top of the welly and use the energy that has generated through out the day to charge our phone. Power generated in the power generating sole is collected via Seeback Effect.

Seebeck Effect:This apparently uses the “Seebeck” effect with thermoelectric modules constructed of P-type and n-type semiconductor materials to make a thermocouple. “When the heat from the foot is applied on the top side of the ceramic wafer and cold is applied on the opposite side, from the cold of the ground, electricity is generated.” Inside the power generating sole there are thermoelectric modules constructed of pairs of p-type and n-type semiconductor materials forming a thermocouple.

These thermocouples are connected electrically forming an array of multiple thermocouples (thermopile). They are then sandwiched between two thin ceramic wafers. When the heat from the foot is applied on the top side of the ceramic wafer and cold is applied on the opposite side, from the cold of the ground, electricity is generated.
Advantages:

The Orange Power Wellies are the latest innovation in Orange’s bid to find alternative sustainable and eco friendly mobile phone charging technologies that can be used at the Glastonbury Festival. Several other French, Dutch and British firms are using foot power to keep the lights on. The terrifically named firm Sustainable Dance Club already has a foot-powered dance floor in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.