Jeans Uplugged

There’s nothing more annoying than when you’re on a long trip or running on the treadmill at the gym and your iPod runs out of batteries. It’s bound to happen. After all, you can’t remember to charge and recharge your electronics all the time. But as always, denim understands your pain and frustration when the battery bar goes from green to red to…sorrrry.

So get this. Recently, scientists have responded to public demand and actually developed a way to recharge electronics by yes, “plugging” them into your jeans.

The nerds at Stanford (I say nerds lovingly of course) have found a way to alter your cotton and polyester into something called “conductive energy textiles.” Say whaaat? Confusing or not, it’s these textiles that can recharge your dead battery and help you out when you’re in the red zone.

In an article published by TG Daily, Yi Cui of the Department of Engineering said, “Wearable electronics represent a developing new class of materials with an array of novel functionalities, such as flexibility, stretchability, and lightweight, which allow for many applications and designs previously impossible with traditional electronics technology.” Jeans are making the impossible possible? I’m not surprised.

The greatest part about these energetic jeans is that scientists even made sure that these flexible textiles are compatible with your washer and dryer. Now really, what’s better than chargeable jeans you can throw in the wash? Maybe custom chargeable jeans, but even we aren’t quite there yet.

Let’s be honest. Moving forward, all we need to do now is wait for scientists to make a pair of jeans that reads our minds when we’re hungry and then magically makes our food appear in front of us. Is that too much to ask?

posted by: deborah on January 26, 2010 at 7:03 pm
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