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instructables.com - 2/16/2009
Instructables: Wearable Shoe Phone
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Wearable Shoe Phone: Any sane geek would think that something as cool as Maxwell Smart's shoe-phone would be everywhere. You'd think there'd be a company or two selling them online, and the internet would be filled with hobbyists boasting about how proud they are of them.

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Tech Digest:  The smartshoe, shoephone, mobileshoe - it's a phone in your shoe, ok?

Tech Blog:  Shoe Phone

Engadget:  Play Agent 86 with a D.I.Y. guide to making a shoephone

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The smartshoe, shoephone, mobileshoe - it's a phone in your shoe, ok?
Tech Digest — Here's something I doubt you'll see at MWC and probably for a very good reason. There's not many people who enjoy dropping their phone on the floor ,so any footwear company would be hard pressed to sell the idea of walking on it for several miles a day. However, a chap by the names of mikeyberman has put together a guide on Instructables of how to make the perfect device for getting your phone into places you shouldn't... ...

Shoe Phone
Tech Blog — ... With just "a tiny handset, a pair of shoes big enough to stash said phone in, and a bit of spare time to put it all together," you can build your very own shoe phone. One caveat: the phone may not last for very long. Project page. ...

Play Agent 86 with a D.I.Y. guide to making a shoephone
Engadget — ... Find yourself in situations where you can't bring a handset but are in desperate need of one? This D.I.Y. from instructables will definitely sort that and your phone foot fetish out in a jiffy. All that's needed is a tiny handset (the article recommends the ...

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