{"id":41613,"date":"2013-11-23T16:43:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T16:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/joshbyard-self-powering-electronics-new-fabric\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:56:08","slug":"joshbyard-self-powering-electronics-new-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/joshbyard-self-powering-electronics-new-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-41613 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/joshbyard-self-powering-electronics-new-fabric\/attachment\/41614\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ml1iydViiq1qgpcs1o1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/joshbyard.tumblr.com\/post\/47623516427\/self-powering-electronics-new-fabric-metamaterial\">joshbyard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Self-Powering Electronics: New Fabric Metamaterial Generates Electricity From Heat, Movement<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Thermoelectrics are not exactly new, but usually made of materials that are brittle, heavy, and expensive. Carroll\u2019s fabric, on the other hand, is lightweight, feels like wool felt, and can be wrapped around surfaces or even sewn into clothing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>While energy can\u2019t be \u201ccreated\u201d this fabric can essentially pull electricity out if thin air, from heat and movement. The fabric Carroll\u2019s group has can turn heat \u2014 from your body, the sun, anywhere \u2014 into usable electricity.<\/strong> And unlike anything ever before, it can simultaneously collect power from vibrations or movement \u2014 letting your smartphone case bounce on a carseat during a long drive could charge your phone. So could a shirt flapping in the wind.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/david-carroll-on-thermoelectric-fabrics-2013-4?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:%20typepad\/alleyinsider\/silicon_alley_insider%20(Silicon%20Alley%20Insider)\">David Carroll On Thermoelectric Fabrics &#8211; Business Insider<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>wanting samples to experiment with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>joshbyard: Self-Powering Electronics: New Fabric Metamaterial Generates Electricity From Heat, Movement Thermoelectrics are not exactly new, but usually made of materials that are brittle, heavy, and expensive. Carroll\u2019s fabric, on the other hand, is lightweight, feels like wool felt, and can be wrapped around surfaces or even sewn into clothing. While energy can\u2019t be \u201ccreated\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-41613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-aPb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41615,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41613\/revisions\/41615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}