Wearable Power design contest by Ardica
Wearable power-module manufacturer Ardica invites the wearable (power) electronic community to the design contest ‘Power to the People‘.
Design professionals, students and all forward thinkers into the hot fashion future are challenged to come up with designs for interactive clothing designed around Ardica’s revolutionary new wearable power technology.
Registration is open now, the guidelines can be found on this page and the submission deadline is Oct 1, 2009.
The prize money ranges from $5,000.- to $2,000.- with a special $2,000.- prize for the best student work.
The contest aims to reach out to the best and the brightest in the fields of
engineering, industrial design, art, architecture, fashion around the globe to develop new concepts with the Ardica Moshi Power System.
The Moshi Power System holds up to 35 Watt-hours of energy and provides 5 Volts DC at 1 amp (5 Watts) via a standard USB cable, weights less than 320 grams and measuring 10” x 6” x 0.5”. That’s a lot of power to keep people warm during cold winter days and give some power to our mobility gadgets around our body.
For detail information check out the ‘Power for the People‘ design contest site. Wish all who take on the design challenge success and we will try to get the winning designs featured here on talk2myShirt.
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We purchased these jackets at the last minute before heading out on a Scooter trip to California.
Since we leave after work, around 7:00 PM in Tucson, we expect it to get very cold: We have traveled on New Years Eve to California when the daytime temperature is 80 degrees, but the nighttime temperature drops to 40 or lower. Riding on scooters at 75 mph adds a great deal of wind chill into the equation – we froze our butts off as we were not prepared for the extreme cold.
Anyway, this time around the our new Mountain Hardware Ardica jackets proved to be “toasty” and quite comfortable for the long ride; it takes us about 9 full hours of riding with 4 gas stops along the way.
The only complaint my wife had was that her hands were a little cold and her feet and legs were a “little cold”.
When will you be making heated overpants (with side zips) and possibly gloves and socks/booties?
Thanks,
Peter & Tammy Curtiss
PS, we are both wearing these jackets all the time now when going to work in the early mornings; temperatures are around 40 degrees and getting colder. We don’t need to turn them on, because of their superior wind proctection and insulation.
Nice Gear!