Eco Factor: Running shoes equipped with electroluminescent polymers powered by piezoelectric generators.
If you’re a fitness freak but don’t always want to carry a flashlight to illuminate your way after dark, industrial designer Alberto Villarreal from Mexico has come to your rescue. Alberto has designed a clean way to illuminate your way with shoes that carry electroluminescent polymers. Shoes with lights aren’t anything new, but the power source Alberto hints at will definitely be unique if these shoes even make it to the market.
Dubbed Bright Walk, these lifestyle shoes carry piezoelectric generators that harness the energy you generate when you walk or run and convert it into usable electricity. The design values your fashion sense and also adds a new dimension of safety for regular runners.
Piezoelectric devices are placed in the sole and generate electricity whenever they are bent or pulled. The electroluminescent polymers produce light under an electric stimulus and brighten without generating much heat. Being lightweight, the system can easily be integrated in shoes.
Via: ZanicDesign
