Anthony Mutua :Kenyans can now charge phones
from the soles of their shoes through a technology
entering mass production. Kenya's 25-year-old
Anthony Mutua developed an ultra- thin chip that
generates electricity when put under pressure. The
chip charges the phone when placed 10cm from a shoe taken off after walking or running. With
funding from the National Council for Science and
Technology, Mutua is now selling the charger and his
branded shoe dubbed Am-utua, which retails at
between KSh1,800 and KSh4,200 ($20-50). "I have
sold 912 pairs of my own branded shoe and fitted about 2,200 shoes with my chips," says Mutua,
whose idea is patented in Kenya though the shoes
are made in India."Eventually I will transfer the
production of the shoes to Kenya," he says. He has
turned to GoFundMe, a fundraising website, to raise
KSh16m to establish a plant in his own country. Read the original article on Theafricareport.com :
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