Have you craved a shoe phone ever since you saw Maxwell Smart use one on Get Smart? Well, me neither, but in case you’re curious, a real, live shoe phone has now been developed in Australia.
IT geek Paul Gardner-Stephen worked with a shoemaker friend to create the gadget which has a mobile handset fitted in one heel and a Bluetooth headset in the other. The device allows you to make and receive calls simply by sliding back each heel.
photo credit: Telegraph.co.uk
Sure, it’s a bit clumsy to take off your shoe every time you need to answer a call, but according to Gardner-Stephen, the phone is practical: “The phone rings, you slip off the shoe then you open the heel, press the button and you’re talking in around the same time it would take to fumble in a bag and pull one out.”
He originally created the gadget as a prop for a local theater production of the Sixties’ TV show Get Smart. But with word getting out about the shoe phone, Gardner-Stephen is now thinking of marking it online.
Also on the drawing board: a medical version of the gadget with equipment for measuring pulse, blood pressure and other medical information.
Tue, Mar 3, 2009
Entertainment, Guy Stuff