Shorts and sleeping bags can generate electricity

Camping enthusiasts will no longer worry about their cell phones running out of batteries, thanks to a new type of shorts and sleeping bags that can generate electricity from body heat and movement.

Vodafone has partnered with the University of Southampton to design Power Shorts and sleeping bags. Recharge Sleeping Bag can charge mobile phones from the energy of the human body thanks to technology. dynamics and thermal power.

Shorts Power Shorts can generate electricity to charge your mobile phone.

Shorts Power Shorts are made of a sponge-like ferroelectret material . When the wearer moves, the shorts gather energetic energy when the fabric of the pants is stretched or compressed.

Thanks to the special properties of the ferroelectret material, the shorts can convert kinetic energy into electrical energy and load into the Power Pocket storage device in the pockets. Mobile phone batteries can be charged by a port connected to the Power Pocket.

Meanwhile, Sleeping Bag Recharge Sleeping Bag creates electricity from the body while sleeping by thermal technology. A thermostat module is attached to the fabric of the sleeping bag. Heat emitted by sleepers will pass through the thermal module consisting of several layers of heat, to generate electricity.

Experiments conducted by Vodafone show that a person wearing shorts of Power Shorts walking or dancing all day, can generate energy to charge the phone's battery life within 4 hours. While the heat generated by a sleeping bag in one spot can generate enough electricity to charge a cell phone battery that uses up to 11 hours of continuous use.

Professor Stephen Beeby, of the University of Southampton, said: 'We have exploited two different technologies to create mobile phone battery chargers. Both of these technologies apply to smart fabric material. And we want to apply these technologies to sleeping bags and shorts. '