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Thermal underwear could recharge your cell phone

Imagine charging your cell phone off of your own body heat?

Well, researchers at the Department of Energy and UC Berkeley say that this could be possible one day with nanowires, or microspopic strands of silicone. When they are arranged and bent in a particular way, they channel heat very efficiently, to the point that body heat could be used to power enough electricity to charge the batteries in small tech gadgets like cell phones.

This discovery could lead to special clothing that could produce electrical current for batteries in cells and handheld computers.

One problem, the researchers say, that while they can say that the technique works, they do not exactly know how. So it may be a bit early to charge your cell off your clothes, but it sure would be a great source of cell power in a pinch.

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