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"Mobile telecommunications company Orange UK and renewable energy resource community GotWind are bringing attendees of the notoriously muddy Glastonbury Festival the perfect accessory: wellies that charge your mobile phone while you walk in them.\nThe Orange Power Wellies have a \"power generating sole\" that converts heat generated from your feet into an electrical current that charges your mobile phone, which you can plug in at the top of your boot. Twelve hours of walking will give your phone an extra hour of battery life.\n(If twelve hours seems like a lot of walking for an hour of battery life, Orange suggests you \"hot step it to the dance step\" to increase the heat generated by the power sole).\nThe power in the sole is collected in a process called the \"Seebeck\" effect. \"Inside the power generating sole there are thermoelectric modules constructed of pairs of p-type and n-type semiconductor materials forming a thermocouple,\" Orange detailed in a statement. \"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.\"\nI just hope Apple designs a pair for the iPhone.\nVideo Demo\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[via cnet]\n\n\nFor more technology coverage, follow Mashable Tech on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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