Beyond their reproductive purpose and ability to attract, breasts spend most of their time bouncing up and down annoyingly while their owners try to go about their everyday lives. Addrienne So, researcher and writer for Wired magazine, thought bouncing boobs might have another calling: alternative energy.
In the next five years Professor Zhong Lin Wang of the Georgia Institute of Technology plans to release an energy-generating T-shirt made of a nanowire fabric which generates frictional energy. The fabric, currently in development, would be able to generate 80 milliwatts of energy per square metre, enough to power a cell phone. Wang told Ms. So that the relatively inexpensive fabric would be ideal for making a bra because of the friction and movement caused by breasts. In a few years women may be trading in push-ups for charge-ups.
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