This fabric may one day charge your smartphone while it is resting in your pocket

0. phoneArena posted on 03 Apr 2012, 07:27

A new kind of conductive fabric can charge electronic devices on contact. The devices do not need to be taken out of the pocket...

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1. andro. posted on 03 Apr 2012, 08:08 1

yes its handy but once it doesn't look as ugly!

3. shadowcell posted on 03 Apr 2012, 08:35 3

Yes, we all must look fabulous when running into the battlefield.

9. Berzerk000 posted on 03 Apr 2012, 17:45 1

Don't want the enemy to think we don't have a sense of style, now do we?

2. jasongohjr posted on 03 Apr 2012, 08:18 0

Equals to a portable charger at yr clothes.... since they have to place a battery on
E part of the clothes...

4. DanMarino13 posted on 03 Apr 2012, 08:44 0

i would bet it would be more similiar to multiple capacitors that would basically hold reserve power, so a little more advanced than just sewing in a 6000mah lithium battery pack into your clothes....

5. denney posted on 03 Apr 2012, 10:33 1

Fast forward 10 years to "conductive fabric pants used to charge smartphones cause cancer"

7. ZayZay posted on 03 Apr 2012, 11:36 0

Was just thinking the same thing.. Then thought "What doesn't give us cancer?"

6. cellphonejunky posted on 03 Apr 2012, 10:45 0

I can already see the headline "radioactive shorts" -Pause for dramatic effect-

8. JonBjSig posted on 03 Apr 2012, 17:05 0

As clothes with solar cells aren't far away I'd say this is a very promising fabric.

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