Teenager Invents Energy-Generating Shoe Insoles | IFLScience. Fifteen-year-old Angelo Casimiro from the Philippines has just invented a smart shoe insole that produces enough electricity when you walk to charge small USB devices. The gizmo consists of piezoelectric materials, which, as Angela explains, can generate an alternating current voltage when actuated. (Solid materials like certain ceramics and salts exhibit this effect, which was discovered in the late 1800s). Here’s a video of Angelo’s entry for the 2014 Google Science Fair: After subjecting his insole generator to tests, he discovered that he could charge a 400 mAH Li-ion battery in full by jogging for eight straight hours. It was also possible to charge a powerbank after playing two straight hours of basketball, although the output was a bit faint.
Here’s a quick video of Angelo testing the insole generator: (It’s doing great!) You can find step-by-step instructions for making electricity generating sneakers at Angelo’s Instructables site. [Via Instructables] Unnerving Artworks Created With Deadly Disease-Causing Bacteria. In collaboration with microbiologists, the English artist Anna Dumitriu has honed her unique talent for working with bacteria as a means of staining fabric; her high-art fashions feature organic patterns made by microorganisms.
In her most recent installation project, The Romantic Disease, she works with a more dangerous type of bacteria: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the organism responsible for Tuberculosis. In combining now-killed TB DNA with found and altered relics of late 19th and early 20th century technologies, Dumitriu creates a vivid medicinal—and often foreboding— landscape. Before the invention of antibiotics, TB patients were taken to “sanatoria,” hospitals built at high altitudes (then thought to be beneficial to sufferers), where they were confined to bed and given extreme treatments.
For a piece titled “Rest, Rest, and Rest!” (The above dress is not a part of The Romantic Disease; it is an earlier Dimitriu piece stained by Staph bacteria) PERCEPTIONS OF REALITY: A COLLECTION INSPIRED BY THE WORK OF RENÉ MAGRITTE - OPENING CEREMONY. A Bra That Can Only Be Unhooked By True Love - nexpected. Japanese lingerie manufacturer Ravijour has designed a bra, called the True Love Tester, that apparently knows "how women truly feel.
" Yes, this is a goofy marketing scheme. But it's also a science bra, so... carry on. The ad above features some so-called human sexuality specialists, who say that when women fall in love and get excited, the adrenal medulla secretes catecholamine, which stimulates the heart. An app receives heart rate information to analyze via Bluetooth from a sensor in the bra. When the "True Love rate exceeds a certain value, the bra hook is unlocked automatically. " According to NicoNico, the lockdown-intimate isn't on the market just yet – but if you buy over 5,000 yen in Ravijour lingerie, you can enter to win a chance to test it out at hotels in Japan. Thermochromic Jeans That Change Color With Body Temperature. Here is another kind of wearable tech, but it’s a different kind than we’ve been used to seeing lately.
These jeans have thermochromic technology embedded in them, which means they change colors in response to temperature fluctuations. If you’ve ever owned a “mood ring,” you have experienced thermochromic technology firsthand. Those rings change colors according to your body temperature, thus predicting your mood. These jeans also react to your body temperature, and even something as simple as someone putting a hand on your leg (or your butt as the video shows) will cause them to change color.
The fun aspect is that each part of the jeans (fabric) is independent of the others, meaning if only certain parts of your body heat up then only certain parts of the jeans will turn white. These jeans were created by Naked & Famous Denim, and they are currently on sale at Barneys New York for $240. Via: [Fashionably Geek] [Mashable] CHANEL Mobile Art.