Mobile Phone Charging Wellies! Green Energy!!!

Festivals are a staple of life for many people, but so is technology. However, most gadgets that we rely on so much aren’t exactly suited to muddy fields and unsecured tents, so some companies have been taking an interesting look at what different technology can be invented to allow people to spend three days in a muddy field and still enjoy their gadgets. Some, of course, are more useful than others.

Among some of the more interesting attempts at developing festival technology are the Orange Power Wellies – a pair of the ubiquitous Wellington boots with a surprise – they are able to charge a mobile phone using just the heat from your feet. The electricity is picked up from the boots and then transferred into the phone, providing that extra little bit of power that you might be craving after three days without any access to a power socket.

It’s not exactly a power station though. You’ll need to be using the willies nonstop for about 12 hours before you get around an hour of phone usage, and that’s if you’ve got an average phone and not a power guzzling smart phone. Still, 1 hour is much better than no hours at all, and just like Glastonbury promotes a green ethos, the Orange wellies will give you power without damaging the environment in any way at all. Well, other than what remains of the grass!

The Wellies aren’t the first time Orange has been experimenting with renewable energy devices at the festival, having previously released a solar powered recharging device and another device aimed at using the energy generated from dancing.