In 2011, Matt Stanton and Hahna Alexander together with a fellow classmate in the mechanical engineering program of Carnegie Mellon University were engaged in a school project. In it, the trio was instructed by their professor to create a product that students in campus will benefit from – and the result was a shoe with embedded LED lights and with the capacity to harvest energy, thus, allowing its wearer to travel more safely especially at night.
And thus was born SolePower, an innovative shoe insert that harvests energy with each step made by the wearer. Energy transfer occurs when the heel hits the ground, which cranks a tiny rotor, induces an electrical current transfer to the wire coils, and charges a lithium-ion polymer battery pack located on the shoelaces. Tests conducted shows that a 15-mile walk can generate sufficient power to charge a smartphone.
Stanton (CEO) and Alexander (CTO) has gained the financial support of Project Carnegie Mellon’s Project Olympus, AlphaLab, and various investors on its Kickstarter campaign.
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