Charger tomorrow is the human body

Korean scientists are working on a technology that would use your body heat to power small devices such as smartphones.

The heat source is a well-known energy that man seeks increasingly to exploit, evidenced most high thermodynamic solar plant in the world recently built . But the furnace tomorrow would it not just our own body? This is the track that wants to explore the Korean scientist Jo Byeong-jin of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. His idea was to put a band on ourselves capable of generating enough energy to power a small device.

Energy Habits 


To power the equivalent of a smartphone, the teacher thinks we should cover our bodies with a surface of 25 * 100 cm (approximately). Clearly, a T-shirt or pants made with the material in question could do the trick. Covering the surface of our body heat could generate about 2 watts, which is enough to power a mobile. Once the most advanced technology, Jo Byeong-jin hope that our body heat is sufficient to replace the battery smartphones. Thus, the devices become much smaller.

More battery?

Despite this advantage, the idea of ​​removing the battery seems to be difficult to conceive. It would, at first, that our wardrobe is comprised solely of clothes can transform our heat energy which is obviously impossible for the moment, the technology is still in its infancy. But this would also mean that our smartphones really become an extension of our body, impossible to undo and unhook our 'energy habits. The solution might be to eventually reduce the life of batteries and their size.

Professor Byeong currently working on new ways to incorporate this material mass products to perhaps democratize this technology and transform us live phone chargers.