Cockrell School Student Entrepreneurs To Pitch New Startups at Longhorn Demo Day

Everywhere Energy

People generate energy every day through simple movement. What if we could harness that energy and use it to, say, charge our phones? That’s the goal senior electrical and computer engineering student Darla Hollander plans to achieve with startup Everywhere Energy.

Everywhere Energy is a company dedicated to harnessing energy from everyday movement and using that energy to charge other things. Their first product, the Eversole, is a Dr. Scholl’s-style shoe insert that gathers kinetic energy as a person walks and then converts it into electrical energy. This, in turn, charges a battery pack that clips onto the shoe, which can then be removed and used to charge a cell phone.

The team, co-founded by four electrical and computer engineering students, plans to launch a Kickstarter to fund continued research, development and manufacturing to get the Eversole ready for market.

“I think we’re really fortunate to have an engineering background, because it kind of makes everything else easier,” said team COO Melinda Haghighatian.

Ultimately, Hollander said, the idea behind using readily available energy is something she hopes to expand beyond the Eversole and into multiple industrial and everyday uses — for example, harnessing energy from cars rolling over speed bumps to power traffic lights.

“This is just the beginning,” Hollander said.