Clothes of the future generate electricity

The latest news in nanotechnology, the nanowires capable of generating electricity by reusing motion energy, have been presented in Atlanta. The thin textile fiber, covered with zinc oxide can generate electrical current using the piezoelectric effect. Combining current flow from many fiber pairs woven into a shirt or jacket could allow the wearer’s body movement to power a range of portable electronic devices. The fibers could also be woven into curtains, tents or other structures to capture energy from wind motion, sound vibration or other mechanical energy. On the picture below professor Zhong Lin Wang presents the revolutionary fiber, which can soon become part of our everyday life. Of course the professor goes even further: if everyone would wear such a cloth made up of two or three layers of such fibers, we wouldn't need power plants, as everyone would produce it's own energy.