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>As per the preliminary reports, this shoe cum charger can light a bulb by placing a battery in the shoes. What?

• zem 13y ago
  i'm guessing (backed up by the photo) that his proof-of-concept is literally a generator in the shoe hooked up to an attached bulb, so that when he walks a bit the bulb lights up.
  • dbbolton 13y ago
    What about the "cum" in the middle of the sentence?
    • baddox 13y ago
      It's Latin for "with." It's usually used with hyphens to describe something with dual purpose, so it would be more appropriate to spell it "shoe-cum-charger." It's also used in purely Latin phrases like magna cum laude.
      • zem 13y ago
        extremely common in india, particularly in the phrase sofa-cum-bed.
      • dbbolton 13y ago
        I knew the Latin meaning. I've honestly never seen it used as a direct replacement for "with" in an otherwise all-English phrase though.
• mrflett 13y ago
  ha! might as well have the headline: '12th class student charges his phone from thin air' and then reveal in the article it is just made by placing a battery in thin air...
  • zem 13y ago
    why put the worst possible interpretation on things? it was pretty clear to me that the battery was rechargeable and that the shoe was charging it.