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Monday, February 18, 2008
Plug in your shirt
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Some day you may plug your iPod into your favorite plaid shirt, or use the power of your khaki pants to recharge your computer.
A professor at Georgia Tech has helped develop clothing that generates electricity as you move about. That technology is still in a very early stage, but the military - for obvious reasons - is interested too. After all, the modern army uses a lot of high tech helpers that draw power. But, the battlefield isn’t the best place in the world to find an AC outlet.
For civilians, it could mean that business travellers wouldn’t have to worry about finding a way to recharge a laptop computer, or cellular phone. And if it was no longer necessary to depend on the battery life of your gadgets, then the day of truly mobile computing and communicating would be here.
You can read about the development here.
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