Watch POWERleap on the Forbes.com Breakout! Video Series.

Watch POWERleap on The Discovery Channel series NextWorld. Last fall, POWERleap was featured in the series premier episode called Future Life on Earth along with other technologies ushering in a whole new way of life. The episode is currently airing on the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel.

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POWERleap was featured in the second season of Sundance Channel series Big Ideas for a Small Planet. Premiering in the Gadgets episode last summer, POWERleap was highlighted along with other green gadgets, technologies, and services that will shape tomorrow.

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Now Redmond and Katz are building a company, PowerLeap LLC, working with flooring manufacturers and architectural designers to commercialize piezo-based flooring for high-foot-traffic areas like train stations and nightclubs.

Via GreenTechMedia

Here’s a brilliant invention that makes us wonder why all city sidewalks aren’t covered in piezoelectric tiles. POWERleap is a floor tiling system that converts wasted energy from human foot traffic into electricity.

Via Inhabitat
Via Inhabitots

POWERleap is a brilliant new concept in city building, sidewalk and street design.

Via CleanTechnica

POWERleap is inspired by the inherent energy in every object, animate or inanimate. Derived from nature are our simple laws of physics that tell us how things actually work (I’m kind of obsessed with this).

Via Urban Re:Vision

In May 2007 POWERleap was recognized as a runner-up in Metropolis Magazine’s Next Generation Design Competition.

The 2007 theme was ENERGY.