This topic is not new to the market with Apple teaming up with Levi’s to make its music players more integrated with our body and mind, with the Redwire iPod Jeans.
The most recent i’ve read about is that Apple is patenting a technology which enables solar panels to be put underneath the touch-screens and LCD panels.
Just imagine bring able to stay connected forever when stranded on a desert island. Cool.
But nothing’s cast in stone yet as the surface area would be too small to be able to totally power the device.
That said, let me inroduce some energy-efficient wearable technology clothing of our future with the prospect of having clothing and accessories that change shape, capture solar energy and even provide therapeutic services such as massage and phototherapy.
Di Mainstone’s Skorpions project, kinetic dresses morph and transform in slow, organic motions, and her latest Sharewear collection consists of two modular dresses that link together via magnetic modules to activate lamps that cast dramatic pools of light and shadow.
Angel Chang also works with smart textiles, recently delivering a ruffle-tiered dress whose heat-sensitive fabric, when warmed, reveals a map of Manhattan.
Her hit debut collection featured a range of raincoats that lit up, and she’s been on a roll ever since.
O’Neill’s NavJack ski jacket, which has an LED navigational display as well as audio connections in its hood to direct skiers cross-country.
For those who are bent on leeching off Wi-Fi networks would be pleased to know that ThinkGeek web store offers a Wi-Fi Detector Shirt with glowing bars that change as the strength of the wi-fi signal in your vicinity fluctuates.
Of all, I thought Mathias Gmachl, the director of design and research studio Loop.pH, had the most interesting product for present day.
With partner Rachel Wingfield, Gmachl created the clever, eco-friendly Sonumbra—a parasol by day, offering shelter from the sun, and a streetlight by night, using the solar cells in its canopy to shed light for the surrounding community.
Gmachl also uses this electroluminescent technology in his Light Sleeper, a set of bedding that gently wakes the sleeper in the most natural way, with an alarm set to illuminate the sheets.
No nagging from mother anymore to wake up for work or school! Or that alarm. Gah.
C’N'C’ Costume National‘s accessory line, which boasts handbags composed of strips of mini solar panels in contrasting colors.
Along the same lines are Jane Palmer and Marianne Fairbanks’ Noon solar bags. Made from sustainable materials and hand-dyed with organic pigments, the bags have solar panels woven into their sides that can charge cell phones, iPods and other electronic necessities.
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I really like the solar bag. i think we will do that too on a t shirt
Technology and clothing. Crazy. I never knew how much was already out there. A wifi detector shirt from ThinkGeek? Crazy. Thanks for the post. I enjoyed reading it.
Charles: Your store is very interesting! Esp. the sound-activated ones. i Love the twin speakers and the traffic lights! Be sure to get your word out when you are done with the solar-panels range! =)) *excited*
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Now the sun is a bit lower in the sky my solar hot water panels don’t get hot enough quick enough . Two options to increase the temperature are. 1. A reflector to concentrate the heat from a couple of square metres down to a small heating coil.
I don’t get it. You still have to take the 240v that comes out of the microinverter and transform/rectify it to charging voltage for the batteries. So the microinverter just adds another 8% loss to the system, compared to a DC-out MPTT controller like FlexMax 80. Also, much of Andalay’s propaganda is bogus — nobody in their right mind has 600 VDC wiring, shadows on one panel don’t affect the output of other panels, etc. Yeah, this system makes sense if all you want to do is pretend to sell electricity back to the grid (note: they might buy it, but it doesn’t really go anywhere except into heat at the first transformer), but if you actually want to USE the generated electricity, a conventional system is much more efficient.
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