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Shoes and socks help keep your feet warm. A person who still suffers from cold feet may decide to purchase heated insoles. Heated insoles run off of a battery and contain a heating element that transfers heat to your feet. Some models even have sensors that cause the insole to shut off when the foot reaches a certain temperature.

Insoles with wires tend to be bulkier than their wireless counterparts. The wires take up space in the user’s footwear and make it less comfortable to wear. Heated insoles that use wires have the wires lead outside of shoes to the battery pack. Insoles with wires will heat the feet, but they make the shoes uncomfortable to wear.

If a heated insole wearer does not want the discomfort involved, he should consider heated insole models that do not use wires. These are inserts fit inside the shoes, take up less space and serve the same purpose. The wireless heated insoles are also battery powered, but they use a small lithium-ion battery that fits inside the insert. The insoles used is usually the size of watch batteries and can last through an entire winter.

Heated insoles with wires should also be avoided because they are slightly more dangerous than insoles with an internal battery unit. If the wire becomes exposed, you risk subjecting your feet to small electric shocks. These small electrical jolts are not usually painful, but they can be annoying.

The Lithium-Ion batteries also provide another benefit that the insoles that use the external benefit do not provide. Because the user needs to replace these batteries less frequently, a user generates less waste. The longer-lasting batteries save money and reduce the amount of waste that ends up in the landfill. The external battery pack of heated insoles with wires does little to help a person look fashionable.

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