What about wearing your own power generator to charge your phone or smartwatch? It could be possible in the short to near future.
This is the aim of a multi-disciplined team of scientists including from Heriot-Watt University’s Research Institute for Flexible Materials, who want to harvest the kinetic energy generated in clothing through nanotechnology.
They are attempting to create a friction-based wearable autonomous energy system. They will use nanogenerators, which are designed to capture the kinetic energy in clothing materials created by friction as the wearer moves. If successful, these super tiny, devices will be woven into our clothing.
The team says that their technology could be ready as early as 2027.
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Last modified: June 11, 2021
