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Power Portable Electronics With Your Shoes!

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a new method for charging your tech gadgets and smart phone -- your shoes! What's that? "Reverse electrowetting" technology has widespread implications to reduce our dependency for traditional rechargeable batteries by converting mechanical energy to electrical energy using liquid micro-droplets and nano-sized substrate.

This technology will allow the energy produced by walking (typically lost as heat) to be converted to electrical power; plenty enough to change mobile electronic devices. Moreover, reverse electrowetting gets away from any need of recharging, since the new energy is constantly being generated simply by walking around!