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February 16, 2008
One Day, Your Jacket will Power your iPod / Pacemaker / Pocket Vibrator
Scientists in the US have developed novel brush-like fibres that generate electrical energy from movement.
Writing in the journal Nature, the team say that the materials could also be used in tents or other structures to harness wind energy.
"Our goal is to make self-powered nanotechnology," Professor Zhong Lin Wang of the Georgia Institute of Technology and one of the authors of the paper told BBC News.
(via bbc news)
Posted by Groonk at February 16, 2008 08:23 PM | Ministry of Technology, The Future, USA
