{"id":144053,"date":"2022-08-15T21:12:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T02:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-found-a-way-to-turn-your-body-into-a-battery-with-your-clothes"},"modified":"2022-08-15T21:12:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T02:12:57","slug":"scientists-found-a-way-to-turn-your-body-into-a-battery-with-your-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-found-a-way-to-turn-your-body-into-a-battery-with-your-clothes","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Found a Way to Turn Your Body Into a Battery \u2026 With Your Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-found-a-way-to-turn-your-body-into-a-battery-with-your-clothes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Batteries provide energy to electronic devices. Your body generates and uses energy. Ergo, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a35533572\/body-heat-battery\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a35533572\/body-heat-battery\/\">you\u2019re basically a battery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As you run, walk, or even breathe, your body is moving. A system fine-tuned enough to collect and store that output can transpose it into energy for the electronics we carry with us everyday. The obvious substrate in which to build such a system is our clothes, since they move along with us.<\/p>\n<p>But without a series of wires or magnetic coils, how can cotton, wool, polyester, or even leather garments collect, store, and transport electricity? A team at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore thinks it has the answers to finally harness your inner generator\u2014and keep you from needing to borrow a charging cord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batteries provide energy to electronic devices. Your body generates and uses energy. Ergo, you\u2019re basically a battery. As you run, walk, or even breathe, your body is moving. A system fine-tuned enough to collect and store that output can transpose it into energy for the electronics we carry with us everyday. The obvious substrate in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}