TomR wrote:
James Gagney wrote:
My middle-school kid is embarrassed by the lights on the sneakers him
mom bought him for the start of school.

See picture he
http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/...mg/9153934.jpg

I told my boy that I'd 'fix' it.

Now I need YOUR help!

How do you turn OFF the lights to a kid's pair of sneakers?

I assume that they are battery operated/powered.

If so, maybe try placing the sneakers in a bucket of clean water with
a weight on top to keep them submerged. My guess is that the water
will find its way into the battery area and short out the battery in
each sneaker.
Or, if you can figure out what type of pressure (how much, where,
etc) will cause the sneakers to light up, maybe you can place weights
or a chair leg (with weights on the chair) in a position to keep the
lights on 24/7 and wait for the batteries to die out.


I thought those things used piezoelectric "generators" to light the LEDs, and
they wouldn't have batteries.