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This is another in my Get Smart series, which also includes my first working wearable shoe phone, a cone of silence and a phone booth.
This real working shoe phone, with the phone in one shoe and the bluetooth headset in the other, was the basis of a Flinders University press release, on The New Inventors and a headline item on the ABC South Australian TV News:
It was also used in a couple of dozen radio interviews which were conducted by shoe phone, including this one. You can find more details at http://realshoephone.com
It will be informative to review the instructable for my first shoe phone if you want to make this one, but not necessary.
This real working shoe phone, with the phone in one shoe and the bluetooth headset in the other, was the basis of a Flinders University press release, on The New Inventors and a headline item on the ABC South Australian TV News:
It was also used in a couple of dozen radio interviews which were conducted by shoe phone, including this one. You can find more details at http://realshoephone.com
It will be informative to review the instructable for my first shoe phone if you want to make this one, but not necessary.
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The most important characteristic for the shoes is that they have an old style wooden heel, or at least one that is removable, since that is an option too.
It is also helpful if the sole is reasonably robust.
It is also helpful if the sole is reasonably robust.
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i forgot the other guy's name
You are right that you can have the phone in your pocket. It just depends how authentic you want it to be, and whether you want the ringing to really come from the shoe. I have used it with the phone in my pocket on occasion, and most people can't tell the ringing isn't coming from the shoe.
Paul.
Depending on how you make your shoe phone, you may find that a phone with internal antenna will be okay. It really will be a case of try it and see. I'd try something like a Sony z310i for a small clam-shell phone that has a classic phone ring built in, and definately still uses it when connected via bluetooth. I use a z310i in my pocket with the shoe phone when I can't be bothered pulling the sim out and putting it in the Motorola v620 in the other shoe.
Of course it works :)
I have just finished presenting it at the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Systems Applications Symposium in San Francisco (http://www.rtas.org).
Have a great day!
Paul.