Scientists in the UK are developing technology that may enable people to power MP3 players and other devices through their clothes and the carpets they walk on.
Yeah if you could could harness the two fibres in push-pull you could generate enough power to electrolyse water, then you'd really be cooking with HHO.
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well... interfaces and devices keep getting smaller. maybe you could power a nano-mp3 player the size of lincoln's beard on a penny. Of course it would be too small for ordinary GUI or controls, probably just easier to implant the thing and turn it on and off by sniffing. Or by swearing at it (my own personal preference in a wireless interface). Implanted mp3 is the sort of thing we'll all be wanting to liven up our miserable existence, once everyone has been fitted with the biomedical sensors and suited up for rubby-rubby power.
actually, my favourite part of this story is that you can't wash the piezo clothes.
My fur gets plenty of static when my hooman strokes me if he's wearing rubber soles slippers I get a good spark from my ears and the tip of my tail.
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Yeh. The piezo clothes don't sound like a whole lot of fun. Imagine two piezos dating, and the risk of shocks. Your hooman would be hopping and screaming if he had to rub you extra to power some foolish device... I wonder if the clothes squeak too.. or make chuffy noises. Can't beat friction for wierd sound effects.
Oh, don't even bother, it's just science friction.
I wander why the renowned universities are doing these stupid studies, useless researches and absolutelly ridiculous developments lately, it looks like they are being infiltrated by members of some stupid cult that is trying to expose science as the dumbest human activity ever.