Charging up Smart Fabrics with a woven battery
Wearable Power, the seamless, unobtrusive integration of electrical power storage or generation into woven structures – speak fabrics – is a highly active area in wearable tech research and development. A team of scientists at the Polytechnic School of Montreal, [...]
SLIVER cells on the wearable solar power horizon
Researcher at the Australian National University developed what seems a new generation of thin, flexible solar panels called SLIVER Cell. The SLIVER cells are not thicker than a sheet of paper of human hair, making them extremely light weight and [...]
Are we there yet with printing solar cells?
On a fairly regular bases news out of research around solar power by making solar cells more efficient, less expensive and preferable let them attach or print onto any surface pop up in the news. Especially around the sunny summer [...]
Cellphone charging on the go
Getting an unlimited stream of power for smart pocket devices while on the go is on top of the wish-list of billions, regardless where one lives, in the urban jungle or in the forest jungle. Wearable power, how to make [...]
Powertex gives power mobility a new meaning
A group of students at the Aalborg University in Denmark won the ‘Future Textiles International Prize Competition 2011′ for their design of a fabric capable to charge any mobile device by just placing the device on that futuristic textile. Called [...]
Wearable power: the mighty force of nano technology
The hot contested wearable power sector looks like to get a massive power boost with the Power Flex, a piezoelectric nano wire generator developed by Professor Zhong Lin Wang, director of the Center for Nanostructure Characterization at Georgia Tech. Last [...]
Wearable Power – the body as power station
Next to interactive gloves, wearable power is coming into the news on a regular, frequent basis. The latest news I picked up is based on research work at the University of Southampton where scientists aim to generate energy through people’s [...]
