Columbia Bugathermo hiking boots are heated, rechargeable
By Thomas Ricker 
posted October 5th 2009 3:27AM
posted October 5th 2009 3:27AM
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posted October 5th 2009 3:27AM
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IRON MAN AWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Because heated boots makes one fly...
Hilarious! Undoubtedly, these boots will indeed set your feet on fire ;)
No, Iron Man flies on Red Bull.
Great Scott! Marty put on these boots!
Ah. Finally, the source of Sweaty Boot Rash.
Just for your satisfaction, at least ONE person got your Futurama reference.
pff more than one person!
Columbia products are top notch, don't understand mother earth jokes, just too far fetched.
Considered I paid 200usd for a normal hiking boot, 250usd is ok I suppose.
Agreed. Considering how much hiking boots already cost, paying an extra $50 for heat would be a steal to say the least.
Living up here in Calgary Canada I can attest to some pretty friggin cold winters (it can hit -50 degrees C with wind chill when Mother Nature is getting revenge) and blazing many a trail on the slopes on my board the only thing that needs heating in boots are your toesies. Depending on where these boots heat this has potential. But then again I would hope you can replace these batteries too somehow...hmmm, what could go wrong with batteries in -50 C and repeated abuse from binding straps? Bursting? Meh...
I'm not sure what will happen at -50C, but generally batteries like the cold.
alkaline batteries sure don't ... the cold slows down the chemical rxn
not sure how Li-Po batteries would fare.
They will be so much fun at the airport security control.
You have a great point. I wonder how TSA will deal with shoes with abtteries built in.
They'll be just as much fun on the trail. I'm not sure about you, but my feet get pretty darn warm when I'm hiking.
How about mountaineering at -15°C?
Which will be helpful the next time you're standing inline two hours in the drizzle on frozen sidewalks in the Meatpacking District for an 8gb MicroSD card.
So awesome and so stupid at the same time. I think I'm in love.
It would be better if the sole had a piezoelectric charger embedded, so you could keep the battery charged by walking.
I used to own a pair of battery powered socks. It was a fun novelty but pretty useless. I used them once while cross country skiing and my toes got burned by the heater element every time my toes pressed down on it. And when you ski you push you toes down when you kick backwards for thrust.
In extreme conditions you might lose a toe or some fingers to frost bite. I guess battery heat has it's application in these conditions. I tend to stay inside when it hits 20 below.
You should have soldered a rheostat or resistor on to the battery box and/or used lower voltage (1.2v) NiMH then burning problem would have been solved.
I came to say that my ski boots have this type of heating element built-in. I guess the regulator must work better, though, since my toes never felt burning.
Talk about a HOT a$$ woopin
Fists of Fury meet Feet of Fire
I would never buy this kind of shoe
peretparker
Isn't Panama on the northern hemisphere?
Isn't Antarctica on the southern hemisphere?
isnt Panama close to the equator?
when was anything said about either location anyway?
"If you live in the northern hemisphere then you've already felt it; the cold chill that signals the onset of nature's respite."
That's my point. Normally, some place is colder than other when it's further from the line of equator, not because of the hemisphere they're at.
I don't think people in Panama, which is in the northern hemisphere, gets chilli weather.
Unless they're in a freezer or refrigerator.
The point is that here in the Northern hemisphere winter is coming pretty soon.
The Southern hemisphere as there winter at a different time of year. Obviously those living close to the equator do not experience the same type of seasons as those further away but you trying to pick apart the details is dumb.
Patrick McManus is rolling over in his goose feather burlap sleeping bag...
wow. took them this long to figure out what customers want?
Why can't they be rechargeable using something like piezo technology to create electricity with each step... At least use it to lengthen the heating ability of these shoes...
Because you don't want 20 pound boots.
Well personally I'm interested in these and will go check them out. Having boots that can help keep your feet just a little warm will be nice for deer hunting season when I'm sitting up in a stand. I tried toe warmers last year, but they weren't easy to get into place, and made walking a little ackward. A comfortable, insulated boot, with a little bit of warmth would be awesome.
*sighs* This is a solution in search of a problem already resolved with thinsulate at, doubtless, a fraction of the cost. The ONLY reason to have something like this is if you left your boots in the car in which case 10 seconds with a hairdryer will take care of that. Otherwise the heat naturally given off by your feet will keep said feet warm. I know this from practical experience living in Minnesota with our sub 0* weather in January-Feb. Now if you live in Antarctica, sure. at that point I'd be wearing a freaking space suit to keep warm. :P
Yeah... because everyone has hairdryers in their car... no wait. Maybe I'll walk out in a pair of house-slippers to get my boots from the car, to bring them inside, so that I may blow-dry them.
SIDENOTE: I think I'll buy these just so I can say key-phrases when I'm a guest at someone's house.
"Can I plug my shoes in?"
"Oh crap, I forgot to turn off my boots!"
And when you want to leave:
"I have to go home to recharge my boots. They're running on low, and I got a long walk ahead of me tomorrow".
Oh I see this is for the braindead idiot market who don't take their boots into the house and store them in their car. Sorry I didn't realize that there was such a large market for lazy idiots. Seriously. I've put boots on from the car in -10 weather. It takes a couple minutes to warm up max. Again this is a pointless product.
Make a city version that heats the sole, to melt through slippery pavements for increased safety.
Maybe little unneccessary, but unlike Alaskian deer hunters urban gadget freaks will buy anything.
Might also be fun when you wanna try walking on a pool that has frozen over, and forgot to turn off those boots.
Actually that would be worse. You would need something ridiculously hot to melt it and dry it as you walk. (Ballpark guess of 500* F.) Otherwise all you would be doing is melting a bit of ice under your feet and water on melted ice is actually worse then just frozen ice. Better to get yourself a set of these http://cozywinters.com/shop/yk-walk.html
I use something similar in the winter time when I'm walking downtown.
As someone who suffers from Raynaud's syndrome, these would be perfect! I may need to pick up a pair!
Should say "So WHY not slip into these," not WHILE.
I hope they're REALLY waterproof. The last thing I want on my feet when I'm walking in wet weather is an electrical device. I'd be very wary of them, myself. One screw-up at the boot factory, and someone's going to end up fricasseed.
Chuck Norris needs a pair of these... just because...
Still waiting on the rechargeable underwear...
HEat boots could prevent frostbite in extreme cold areas I have been waiting for people to make somethng like this. It was pretty obvious that if people are losing toes fingers etc to frost bite water proof Heated boots gloves / clothes like this would help prevent it.
I fricking thought of this years ago and I dont make boots or heaters.
Take some solar pannel chargers to plug them in during rest peroids and you would be good to go.