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What do you think?:
Utilise an inductively heated plate, albeit with much reduced output power and couple this with a pair of slippers in which is a wire mesh.
Place the induction plate at the foot of a sofa/couch and keep your feet warm during winter, without worrying about snagging/pulling wires
when you move/get up.
Induction slippers
http://www.google.c...ved=1t:429,r:13,s:0
Would probably look like this. [bungston, Feb 02 2012]
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Hm... Here's why not: induction rapidly weakens
across a distance, so you'd have to put your feet in
exactly the right place - exactly flush with the plate
- for the heat to turn on. This would be okay for
charging (you leave the slippers to charge during the
day and enjoy mumble hours of comfort when you
come home), but I don't think it's okay for the actual
use to require your feet to be still and in one place. |
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Ah, that's why not. Thanks. |
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Although to be fair, the idea does suggest that it's
something to keep your feet warm while you're
sitting in a particular place. |
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Bun. No more hassle surely than the infamous Big
Slipper, and much more toasty. |
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//kw range// just how big are your feet anyways ? |
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For when the laser heated slippers keep
vapourising the cat. |
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Sounds warm and snuggy. I'll give you a bun and a cup
of coffee to go with it. (Though this winter has been
a real crapper, and my feet have not been cold as
yet.) |
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Currently (so to speak) when warming ones feet before heater or fire, one must often move them to optimize warmth / decrease risk of scorch. This as opposed to heat generating packets and the like which one must frantically fish out of one's slippers when they get too hot. The "weaken across a distance" property of induction would allow the slipper wearer this same sort of temperature regulation. There would also be less risk of stray clothing / books / toddlers accidentally burning themselves as the induction plate would not be hot. |
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Would it not be more effective to simply place a thick slab of vitirfied nuclear waste in the sole of each slipper ? |
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Never civilized enough to wear slippers myself.
Always just hit the floor barefoot in the morning and
walked to the kitchen like a primitive savage. |
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That being said, microwave transmitters build into
an ottoman would be a more efficient way to get
that energy to your slippers. No proximity issues and
you could make your feet as hot as you want and
then some. |
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