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Sunday, 16 June 2013
Vodafone
has unveiled unique sleeping bags and shorts for charging mobile phones
in this summer’s Isle of Wight festival in the UK. The Sleeping bag and
shorts have a technology that charges your mobile devices while
walking, sleeping or even dancing. The devices harvest body heat and
movement to increase the battery life of your mobile device.
The sleeping bags and short pants
launched by Vodafone are called ‘Recharge Bags’ and ‘Power Shorts'. They
contain special printed circuits that convert the user’s body heat or
any movement whether sleeping, dancing, walking in to power for their
mobile phones.
The technology for the Recharge Bag and
Power Shorts was developed by Vodafone in collaboration with the
University of Southampton’s Electronics and Computer Science Department.
The technology called "smart fabric" is ideal for campers in outdoor
events and can become a 24-hour power source for the users.
According to the company, if you sleep
in the Recharge Bag for eight hours it will generate battery life that
will give the user 11 hours of standby time, or 24 minutes of talk time;
whereas walking in the Power Shorts will give the user over four hours
of battery life. It uses thermal energy from the sleeping bag to create
energy and kinetic energy from the shorts to power your mobile devices.
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