Textiles que pueden generar electricidad a partir de movimientos se están investigando desde hace años. Ahora científicos del Georgia Institute of Technology han dado el siguiente paso, desarrollando un tejido que al mismo tiempo puede cosechar energía del sol y del movimiento y alimentar con ella sistemas de comunicaciones o de posicionamiento.
Fabrics that can generate electricity from physical movement have been in the works for a few years. Now researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have taken the next step, developing a fabric that can simultaneously harvest energy from both sunshine and motion.
Combining two types of electricity generation into one textile paves the way for developing garments that could provide their own source of energy to power devices such as smart phones or global positioning systems.
