My utility idea will incorporate a smartphone and a shoe (particularly the sole). This is aimed to revolutionize the security of people in unfamiliar areas.
Insight:
A new design of shoes with simple memory chips affixed in the soles to send realtime signals to the wearer’s smartphone when walking in the streets.
How the utility will work:
I portend to make the best of the shoes we wear when moving about. This will work in conjunction with the intelligent smartphones that are commonplace nowadays.
All that has to be done is add a little technological touch to the shoes by including interactive memory chips in the soles. The chips will have radar capabilities to sense acclaimed dangerous spots with the help of the Google maps function in the smartphones.
All a traveler would need to do before setting out on the trip is to gauge the smartphone to the neighborhood he or she aims to visit. The smartphone will communicate the information about the area with memory chip in the soles of the pair of shoes used.
Whenever the person is approaching a known bad area, the application in the shoe soles will sense that immediately and communicate the signal back to the user’s smart phone.
Then the smartphone will be able to alert the owner through a sound of an alarm. The alert alarm could be something close to the tension sound effects we hear in the movies.
Reasons why it should exist
smartphones have come with added capabilities and thus can help in keeping us safe in streets and unfamiliar places.
Almost everyone moves around in shoes; there can be an added functionality of shoes besides protecting our feet when walking.
There is need for individualized security. We should be able to watch our backs with the technology we have at our disposal.
