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Charge your phone with your feet

Thermoelectric wellies that charge your mobile phone using heat from your feet.

Telecom firm Orange, a sponsor of June's Glastonbury Festival, is promoting its new "Power Wellies"s as a means for festivalgoers to keep their cellphones charged. Created in collaboration with renewable energy experts GotWind, use a unique 'power generating sole' that converts heat from your feet into an electrical current. From Popsci:

Users will have to stomp in the Pilton mud for about 12 hours to generate enough electricity to charge a cellphone for one hour, however -- so the wellies are more notable for novelty than practicality.

The concept is interesting, however. The boots work by capturing the heat of the wearer's feet -- not kinetic energy, like other walking-power concepts we've seen.

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Normann Copenhagen Town Bike

Designed by Anne Lehmann, the stylish Normann Copenhagen town bike is a limited edition hand built classic ride featuring an anthracite grey steel with contrasting green saddle, handlebars and chain. Anne Lehmann says:

Normann Copenhagen is all about lifestyle, and cycling is a natural part of the Danish lifestyle, especially in Copenhagen, where it is easy to get around on bike. At first glance, the Normann Copenhagen Bike, with its simple frame and understated appearance, does not attract attention in use, but the green details in the saddle, handlebars and chain provide a surprising element, that make it stand out in a crowd.

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Burley Travoy Bike Trailer

With the convenience of being able to use it as a shopping cart when you reach your destination, the Burley Travoy is for the urban cyclist a useful alternative to the conventional axel hitch trailer. Fully collapsable and made of a lightweight aluminum frame the Travoy hitches to the seat post of any bike, and carries up to 60 pounds on it's two large wheels. Great idea.

Burley Travoy Bike Trailer. Via Uncrate.

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FREITAG Free Fix & iPad Sleeve

Love these photos. FREITAG has at all their flagship stores five Gorilla fixed gear bikes, TSG helmets and FREITAG Bags for you to borrow so you can tour the city in style. I think IKEA has a similar program which includes a trailer for your goods.

Coming just in time for when I am hoping the iPad will be available locally, the FREITAG F23 iPad Sleeve is scheduled to be launched in August.

FREITAG

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Sparta Vintage

Equipped with Brooks accessories and extra fat tires, the 'Vintage' from Dutch brand Sparta has wonderful nostalgic look. Perfect for short ride in Amsterdam or other bike friendly locales.

Sparta Vintage

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Serie Stoccolma Bicycles

Note Design Studio of Sweden has designed a unique Stockholm line for the stylish Italian bicycle manufacture Abici with colors derived from four different iconic buildings in Stockholm. Launched initially in Sweden these beautiful retro styled bikes should inspire people to ride again. Fashionable and practical mobility.

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Leica M7 Hermes Edition

The Hermès Leica M7, made with silver chrome and exquisite leather finishes applied by Hermès, is a limited edition release of only 200 units. The body and the carrying strap of the camera are made in Swift calfskin, a drummed leather with extreme suppleness. For the connoisseurs of extraordinary quality and style this release is available in "étoupe" and "orange" varieties. The only downside might be finding film worthy of a camera of this capability.

Hermès Leica M7

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Eurobike Gallery

Classic bikes by Electra.

Core77 has a gallery of photos from Septembers Eurobike Show 2009, one of the world's leading tradeshows for the bike business. E-bikes seemed to be the hottest product segment at the show, followed by biking fashion and the more geeky bike parts and accessories.

The fashion show featured summer collections by brands such as X-Bionic, GORE Bike Wear, Inverse, Craft, Vaude, Scott, Parentini, Ziener, Löffler, Pearl Izumi, and Shimano.

Biking has become as much mainstream fashion activity as a lifestyle choice.

Core77
Eurobike Show 2009

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Vanilla Trike

This striking three wheeler features a Brooks leather saddle, cro-moly frame, headset from Campagnolo, front hub and rear wheels from Phil Wood and front end forks fashioned from stainless steel. It doesn't get much better than this.

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OKES Lifestyle Bike

Beautiful sleek lines and great use of materials, the frame is composed of French Oak wood (though perhaps not as practical as bamboo), are part of what helps to create an amazingly stylish set of wheels. I think I was struck as much about the philosophy behind this limited edition bike and I was by the result. The designer Reinier Korsatnje writes:

In the modern society, the way you travel became more important in peoples lives. The choice of your vehicle reflects your image, culture and lifestyle. The car you drive, the bike you ride, if you take the subway and walk, it all has to do with who you are.

It's an obvious but pretty important statement for driving the development of a new bike such as this. Great work.

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