OT: Microfiber fabric makes its own electricity?

[OkiePC 14]

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have developed a microfiber fabric that generates its own electricity, making enough current to recharge a cell phone or ensure that a small MP3 music player never runs out of power. "The fiber-based nanogenerator would be a simple and economical way to harvest energy from the physical movement," Zhong Lin Wang of the Georgia Institute of Technology, who led the study, said in a statement. How big is this in out futures? Harnessing electron flow from any mechanical motion directly at the tiny "muscle-wire" level... I am still hoping they come out with "nano filters" that could replace scuba tanks, mechanically splitting compounds, for example, or eliminate airborne contamination, rebalance an atmosphere at the speed of wind, and the manufacturing cost of a high end fabric. Pieace! Edited 15 Feb 2008 by OkiePC

[OkiePC 14]

Hmmm

[Nathan 7]

I saw that on slashdot recently - cool stuff. They described utilizing the Piezoelectric effect on a small scale as the driving technology. Edited 16 Feb 2008 by Nathan