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Recharge Your Cell Phone with Your Breasts



We've seen a lot of ways for humans to generate electricity for their electronic toys, from energy producing dance floors, to people powered gyms, and boat loads of solar clothing. But the oddest concept we've heard about so far is a kinetic energy bra.

The bra, which is currently just an idea being tossed around by Slate contributor Adrienne So, would convert breast motion to energy using special fabric made of nano-wires. As the breasts sway, they would cause the wires to rub against each other generating small amounts of friction and electricity, about 80 milliwatts, just enough to power a cell phone.

The idea will likely never see the light of day, but it did give us a good excuse to write about electricity-producing bras. Hee hee bras... [Source: Slate, Via: Textually]

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