Wearable power uniform for soldiers
News about wearable power become a regular weekly topic on talk2myshirt as we have again found information of a new development in this field.
Britain’s Ministry of Defense awarded a research grant to Intelligent Textiles Limited, a British company specializing in wearable technology, to develop power fabrics that can power radios and other combat equipment soldiers [...]
Fiber Nanogenerators power up our future clothing
On a fairly regular basis researchers publish new findings around power generating textiles, a topic highly interesting for the wearable electronic community.
This time engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, created energy generating nanofibers that could one day be woven into textiles.
The nano-sized generators work on the ‘piezoelectric’ principle, converting kinetic energy through stretches and [...]
Wafer-thin plastic stores electricity
A recently published scientific development from researcher at the Imperial College London looks like another stepping stone towards wearable power.
The scientists created a super-capacitor in a flexible form by sandwiching a glass-fiber layer between two layers of carbon fibers which are covered with electricity conducting resign.
Super-capacitor, widely used in electronic products, have the property to [...]
Conductive Energy Textiles
Scientists at Stanford University, CA join the race for wearable power by developing ink from single-walled carbon nanotubes.
According to the scientists, everyday textiles like Cotton or Polyester fabrics can be electrified with an extremely simple “dipping and drying” process resulting in eTextiles with an excellent ability to store electricity.
Conductive ink impregnated textiles retain their flexibility [...]
Wearable power – Dancepants
Wearable, limitless power for ‘on the go’ personal deceives is the dream of many.
Batteries usually run out at just the wrong moment, in the middle of a phone call, while tweeting or when the motivational music is most needed.
A lot of research and experimentation is done to realized this dream but sometimes the simplest ideas [...]
Wearable Power – battery made from from algae cellulose
Soft, flexible, wearable power is the stuff many scientist are working on, not only for the wearable electronic community as many other applications like to use bendable, sustainable, power providing sources for our devices on the go.
A group of scientist at the Uppsala University in Sweden led by scientist Albert Mihranyan try to develop light, [...]
Sticky, Itchy, and Stiff fashion generate wearable power
Generating alternative power on-the-go to keep up with the increasingly sophisticated but insanely power hungry electronic gadgets in our pockets much research and development resources have been devoted to this topic.
A highly interesting approach to wearable, on-the-go power generation comes from XS Labs, a team of researcher and artists founded by Joanna Berzowska to [...]
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 [...]
The FLAP Bag project brings light and power to rural Africa
A remarkable project spearheaded by Pop!Tech in collaboration Sheila Kennedy creator of the Portable Light Project and Timbuk2, a custom bag company in San Francisco is the FLAP Bag which “enables the world’s poorest people to create and own energy harvesting textiles, providing the benefits of renewable power as an integral part of everyday life”.
The [...]
Pluggage, the kinetic and solar power harvesting luggage of tomorrow
Finally there is a way to make good use of all the energy we spend while lugging around our luggage: the Pluggage is using the kinetic energy we spend and sun power to keep your gadgets charged.
The kinetic energy is coming from the wheels converting the rotation via a generator/turbine into electrical energy. The second [...]
