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Thermal underwear uses body heat to recharge your mobile phone

2008-01-30 21:15:36 by dusanb in IntoMobile

It seems that scientists have found another way to improve power shortage - body heat…

Thermal underwear According to researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of California at Berkeley, recent findings point to a way of making silicon into a better thermal conductor for turning even small amounts of heat into electricity, which in turn could be used to recharge your mobile phone or a portable media player.

The secret, they say, lies in nanowires, or microscopic strands of silicon, that could channel heat energy far more efficiently than current designs for thermoconductors.

Ideally, this finding could lead to special clothing and other wearable materials that produce electrical current for batteries in mobile phones, handheld computers, or portable media players. The only problem - well, they seem designed for people living in Alaska, Iceland or Scandinavian countries…

[Via: textually.org]

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