A team at the Georgia Institute of Technology has created tiny fibers that generate electricity from movement, raising the prospect of smart clothes that could power your phone or iPod. Engineer Zhong Lin Wang said the fibers are sensitive enough to generate juice from normal body movements, so you wouldn't have to go jogging just to finish a phone call.
While portable gadgets seem like a natural market, a more immediate and compelling application may be found in medical devices such as cochlear implants and pacemakers, where changing batteries is a literal pain in the someplace.
Nanowires allow 'power dressing' [BBC]
