Australian IT ExperT Invents The ShoE PhonE
April 8, 2009 – 7:19 am | by puguh
Boffin Paul Gardner-Stephen, came up with the device as a prop for a theatrical production of the ’60s spy spoof Get Smart, and it functions perfectly as a mobile phone. Sadly, it’s not just a case of clicking your heels and speaking to your feet. You’ll have to slip your shoe off and slide back the heel to chat into the mouthpiece. The actual phone is housed in the other shoe, the two connecting via Bluetooth. But Gardner-Stephen says this takes no more time than it would to rummage through a handbag and is convinced his design will take off.
IT expert Paul Gardner-Stephen created the device, which has a mobile handset fitted in one heel and a Bluetooth headset in the other, with the help of a shoemaker friend. It allows users to make and receive calls simply by sliding back each heel to operate the gadgets. We kind of hope it does because his follow-up invention is no less out there, but much more practical: a heart-rate-monitor shoe. Aimed at the elderly and infirm, it’ll alert caregivers in case of an emergency. You could literally be saved by your shoes.
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