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Jacket Powers Gadgets With Your Hot Body

knome — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:38:08 EDT

dang that would be crazy

knome

Jacket Powers Gadgets With Your Hot Body

cyborgtroy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:29:30 EDT

I don't know if anyone's mentioned this yet, but heat can technically only be captured from the temperature difference between the body and the air. Thermoelectrics do this analogously to regenerative braking [But with heat transfer]

Which means I believe it will feel warm because of the heat gradient, and cooler under load ["I'm cold, turn off the electrical device I'm wearing"]

And wrapping it around a gasoline engine would keep insulate it somewhat and reduce performance / efficiency so much that it wouldn't be worth the thermoelectric power.

cyborgtroy

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ripfire — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:25:19 EDT

@baltwade: Yeah exactly. It's called endothermic process.

ripfire

Jacket Powers Gadgets With Your Hot Body

General Tsao aka Ivan the Impaler — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:17:21 EDT

They should make skivies out of this shit - all the rubbing and friction in the groin - oh wait!!! I thought I was on Fleshbot - sorry. But seriously back to the rubbing and friction of the groinage.

General Tsao aka Ivan the Impaler

Jacket Powers Gadgets With Your Hot Body

scarbrtj — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:57:33 EDT

I got a fever, and the only prescription... is more cowbell!!!

(except perhaps maybe I will pass on cowbell as my fever is helping power my laptop and cellphone in a most opportune fashion...)

scarbrtj

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Way — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:38:47 EDT

Excellent cross-linking to Frucci's "Intel spot."

Way

Jacket Powers Gadgets With Your Hot Body

The Brain — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:38:21 EDT

If you've ever tried to keep batteries from freezing by keeping them in your sleeping bag, you'll know that they will suck the heat right out of you and leave you in hypothermia.

From the sound of it, that jacket would best be worn in the summer. I wouldn't wear it in the winter though. You want something that keeps the heat trapped next to your skin, not something that wicks it away.

The Brain

Jacket Powers Gadgets With Your Hot Body

Hiphopopotamus — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:36:58 EDT

If Frucci does his white guy dance it will blow up an entire power grid.

Hiphopopotamus

Jacket Powers Gadgets With Your Hot Body

baltwade — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:28:10 EDT

But the excess heat my body produces and my jacket keeps trapped against me keeps me warm during the cold months. If my jacket starts using that heat to power small electronic will it no longer keep me warm?

baltwade

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Jason Chen — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:16:07 EDT

@Kaiser-Machead: Matt doesn't need to say it. Frucci's hot body speaks for itself.

Jason Chen

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Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:12:52 EDT

Hey Matt, you saying that Frucci has a hot body? Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Jacket Powers Gadgets With Your Hot Body

habib15 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:05:13 EDT

Not to make their efforts for gadget powering sound futile, but why don't they use this technology to wrap car engines in and make better hybrid cars. Most of a combustion engines inefficiencies are due to lost energy in the form of heat. Just my 2 cents.

habib15

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Geisrud — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:04:32 EDT

I know Kung-Fu
Show me

Geisrud

Jacket Powers Gadgets With Your Hot Body

Darrone — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:01:18 EDT

"Basically they're going to interlace thermo-electric silicon nanowires with the fabric" Theres nothing basic about that sentence and you know it!

Also, hmmm, excessive body heat... Send of these and a treadmill to Danny Devito and we'll solved the energy crisis.

Darrone

Jacket Powers Gadgets With Your Hot Body

strider_mt2k — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:58:12 EDT

Holy Mitochondria!

I sure HOPE it works on cells!

strider_mt2k