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Researchers investigate turning clothes into electrical chargers

By | June 4, 2010, 2:28 AM PDT

Would you like to charge your mobile phone without ever having to plug into an electrical outlet?

The University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University are both developing materials to enable the storage of energy inside clothing. SmartPlanet correspondent Sumi Das explores the schools’ work on “smart” clothes.

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Hope we can wear the clothes in wet weather
without getting a charge out of it. grin
Posted by DadsPad
4th Jun 2010
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