A T-shirt that uses music to charge phone created
Imagine plugging your mobile into your T-shirt to charge its battery. It may sound a bit utopian but it’s now a reality, thanks to scientists who’ve developed such a garment which uses loud music to power up a cell phone.
A team at telecoms giant Orange has unveiled the new T-shirt that charges mobiles while one watches musical bands in action; users just have to plug their phones into the T-shirt for a quick top-up charge whenever they need it.
The futuristic garment works by using noise-responsive technology — simply, the louder the music, then the quicker the phone charges, say its developers.
It uses an A4-size piece of piezoelectric film in a T-shirt to absorb pressure from sound waves.
It converts these into an electrical charge, which it then transfers from its battery into a lead that fits most phones.
Orange will be conducting live testing of the gadget on site at the Glastonbury musical festival in Britain to see which acts are the “best to charge to” around the Spirit Of 71 stage, the Daily Mail reported.
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Mel Gibson now dating Greek model
Los Angeles: Hollywood actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson is reportedly dating a Greek fetish model named Stella Mouzi.
The 55-year-old Braveheart actor, who recently split from girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva following domestic assault allegations, has been spending a lot of time recently with Stella, reported TMZ.
Stella recently walked the red carpet at the 2011 LA Fetish Film Festival Awards and she is currently in the US on a visitor’s visa which she is going to extend soon.
Photos of the pair leaving after dinner together emerged at the beginning of the month and again this week at Sky Bar on the Sunset Strip.
—PTI
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