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12th Class Indian Student Invents Shoes To Charge Your Mobile

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Re: 12th Class Indian Student Invents Shoes To Charge Your Mobile

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Post by zem »

dbbolton wrote: post #6

>As per the preliminary reports, this shoe cum charger can light a bulb by placing a battery in the shoes. What?

i'm guessing (backed up by the photo) that his proof-of-concept is literally a generator in the shoe hooked up to an attached bulb, so that when he walks a bit the bulb lights up.

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Post by mrflett »

dbbolton wrote: post #6

>As per the preliminary reports, this shoe cum charger can light a bulb by placing a battery in the shoes. What?

ha! might as well have the headline: '12th class student charges his phone from thin air' and then reveal in the article it is just made by placing a battery in thin air...

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Post by tzs »

baddox wrote: post #10

Sounds like a fairly inefficient way to turn food into electricity. Surely it would be cheaper, faster, and more efficient to just have something like a small hand crank to generate the electricity.

The point of this kind of thing is to generate electricity form something that you would be doing anyway even if it did not generate electricity.

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Post by aviraldg »

I know I'll get downvoted by the Indian crowd here on HN, but I feel this needs to be said:

This illustrates the characteristically Indian trait of mindless hero worship. Our media has a tendency to blow such things out of proportion, even if it's immediately apparent to anyone even slightly technically competent that they are definitely not original, or as revolutionary as they are claimed to be.

More examples:

Recent coverage (in one of India's largest newspapers): http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/Guwahati-te...

Thoroughly debunked: http://technofaq.org/posts/2014/02/unmasked-afreed-islam-rev...

or

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/enterprise-it/securi... ("Hacks")

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Post by amits89 »

Mobile Or Smartphone? If It's Smartphone then it's a great idea because In India people are demanding big screen which comes with 2000mAh (5-inch screen) So Smartphone user are facing issue with battery. If it's mobile charger also the scenario is great because in India we have 900 million mobile device, which include 80 Million smartphone as of now. Last but not the least This setup will help India in a long run, This boy need good team member to have his company.

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Post by mattlutze »

In college, one of my physics professors put it this way: Even though someone else may have discovered a law or theorem already, doesn't make independently reasoning it out and getting to the same conclusion any less of an accomplishment.

Good on him for attacking a problem, and for having the wherewithal to attempt more advanced prototypes.

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Post by sizzle »

aviraldg wrote: post #15

I know I'll get downvoted by the Indian crowd here on HN, but I feel this needs to be said: This illustrates the characteristically Indian trait of mindless hero worship. Our media has a tendency to blow such things out of proportion, even if it's immediately apparent to anyone even slightly technically competent that they are definitely not original, or as revolutionary as they are claimed to be. More examples: Rece…

I think it has more to do feeling pride for one's own country. I fail to see how this is "mindless hero worship", rather than a means to push India into the spotlight for their 15 minutes of fame, granted the story makes international headlines.

Now bollywood movies on the other hand........

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