Clothing as cellphone charger? Nanofiber technology might do the trick

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Here’s a technology that could get folks hot under the collar: Nanofibers that within a few years may be ready to be woven into fabric as tiny, electricity-producing generators. The fibers would pick up energy from body movements such as bending, stretching and twisting.

But the microscopic strands still have a ways to go before showing up attached to your shirt, according to the UC Berkeley research team working on the project.

Here’s the rest of the story on the potential clothing-based chargers.

-- Tiffany Hsu