| Hacked Heelys Generate Power |
| Written by Hank Green | ||
| Thursday, 30 August 2007 | ||
 I'm kinda a fan of Heelys. I mean, I know that there is no way they could ever be, like, cool...or anything. But, honestly, there's no way I could ever be cool either, and I'm down with that. So when you combine my favorite rolling sneakers with a miniature generator...this ecogeek gets pretty excited. A couple of clever artists hacked a Heely to power a small LCD screen and a little micro-processor. Now, the shoe, as is, just gives you completely random directions (that being part of the project, an exploration of transportation to no where...a journey vs. destination thing...I guess) but it could just as easily be used for less profound, more practical tasks, like charging your dying cell phone or iPod. Hopefully the folks at Heelys will catch on, and add another level of dorkiness to their product. Via the extremely snarky Gizmodo
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written by Strange but True , August 31, 2007
I'd have to use it to power a forcefield around my ass for every time my Heelys dumped me A over T.
Cool
written by Brian Blomlie , August 31, 2007
I wants!!
Cool
written by Scott , August 31, 2007
See this would be bad ass for adults, if you could hook and mod the heelys to power an mp3 player, or light.
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written by Patch , September 01, 2007
Haha, that's awesome.
Always good to create power cleanly
written by EcoFan2007 , September 03, 2007
And here you have it... one large step for man kind, one large step over to http://pixelspotlight.com/
Me, Too.
written by celia , November 10, 2007
I'm at a job where I stand up all day. I want this, too.
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