Curt Rosengren ~ Passion Catalyst TM
"Love your work. Change your world."
Out and about and need to charge up your iPod? Just plug it into your...shirt?
Could happen, if this new technology has anything to say about it.
Someday, your shirt might be able to power your iPod just by doing the normal stuff expected of a shirt.
Scientists have developed a way to generate electricity by jostling fabric with tiny wires woven inside, raising the prospect of textiles that produce power simply by being stretched, rustled or ruffled by a breeze.
The research, described in the new edition of the journal Nature, combines the precision of nanotechnology with the elegant principle known as the piezoelectric effect, in which electricity is generated when pressure is applied to certain materials.