TV host creates shoe controller for iPod

Too often concept gadgets remain concepts, doomed to forever stay as Photoshopped flights of fancy. Not so these shoes that double as an iPod controller. Thanks to a challenge on the U.K.'s The Gadget Show and the help of industrial designers at Smallfry, presenter Suzi Perry's concept of controlling an iPod with her shoes became a reality.

It's a rather odd-looking reality, but the idea has meri...