What is the phone of the shoe?

Shoe phone is a communication device hidden in a normal shoe. It was a famous gadget in the 1960s TV Spy Spoof Get Smart . The joke was that the phone, like many gadgets on the show, was very impractical and hard to secret. Various real shoe phones were created, mostly when imitating the Get Smart . In 2008, an Australian engineer created real shoes as a joke before realizing he had practical medical applications.

In the sixties, the success of James Bond's books and films inspired worldwide madness for high-tech, fantastic spy thrillers. In 1965, the famous comedy writers Mel Brooks and Buck Henry get Smart , which took place until 1970 and has been regularly revived. Agent Maxwell Smart, originally feature actor Don Adams, was clueless and awkward, unlike his counterparts on a large screen. James Bond was known for his wide range of high-tech gadgets. Maxwell Smart had its own gadgets, sentencesShine of WHICH were unnecessary, impractical or obvious and sometimes all three.

The most famous of them was the phone of shoes that Smart used to communicate with his supervisor, chief. Unfortunately, the phone tended to ring in the inopportune times and Smart had to take off the shoe to talk to it, which caused many comic situations. It is irony that the shoes had a counterpart in real life: a miniaturized transmitter in the shoe used by Soviet KGB agents during the Cold War. In fact, it was more of a mistake or a hidden microphone than a working phone. It is not known whether KGB technicians were intelligent .

various actual shoe phones have been created in years since the intelligent has ended. Some were simply telephone phones in the shape of a high -heeled shoe and so on. Others were created as a meMorabilia for a TV series or 2008 get smaRT Film. In 2005, the rich basketball star Shaquille O'Neal was incorporated into one of its excessive sneakers. Most of them did not work like shoes and phones; O'Neal broke his cell phone when he tried to walk.

In 2008, Australian engineer Paul Gardner-Stephen created a phone with mobile phone circuits in dressing. Gardner-Stephen was a fans Get Smart and the device was created as a Lark. However, he soon realized that he had practical applications as a medical device. This could be integrated with the technology to detect falls or other medical crises and remotely alert emergency personnel. The Australian Medical School has explored the use of shoes phone in older patients who may be unwilling or careless about most technological devices, but are unlikely to forget their shoes.