How many times have you needed just those extra few minutes on your cell phone and the power wasn’t there? A new gadget student entry for the 2009 James Dyson Award named the ‘Dyson Energy Bracelet’ offers you the opportunity to do just that by using "the thermoelectric effect to generate electricity to charge up your cell phone."
All that is is a fancy way of saying the Dyson Energy Bracelet converts the difference in temperature between your body and the environment you’re in into energy for your cell phone.
All you have to do to use the Dyson Energy Bracelet is plug a wrist strap into a tiny USB port of the gadget and it charges up. This should give a several minutes of talk time when you need it.
Wrist-Worn Chargers
The Energy Bracelet Uses Thermoelectric Energy for Mobile Juice
Trend Themes
1. Thermoelectric Technology - This trend highlights the potential for wearable items with thermoelectric technology that translates temperature differences into energy for charging devices, creating an opportunity for disruption in the wearable tech and mobile device industries.
2. Energy-generating Accessories - This trend illustrates the emergence of energy-generating accessories that improve convenience and accessibility to power, creating an opportunity for disruption and innovation in the fashion, tech, and energy industries.
3. Sustainable Wearables - This trend emphasizes the potential for the creation of sustainable wearables that generate clean energy, opening up opportunities for innovation and disruption in the fashion, tech, and sustainability industries.
Industry Implications
1. Wearable Technology - The emergence of thermoelectric wearable technology provides an opportunity for disruption and innovation in the wearable technology industry, especially in the development of portable chargers.
2. Mobile Devices - The creation of energy-generating accessories like the Dyson Energy Bracelet highlights opportunities for disruption and innovation in the mobile device industry, particularly in the development of more accessible and sustainable power sources.
3. Renewable Energy - This trend creates disruptive innovation opportunities in renewable energy, emphasizing the potential for further development of sustainable energy sources in fashion, tech, and energy industries.