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Solar Powered Jacket Charges Your Gadgets
blorg writes "Wired News has a story about a new jacket from SCOTTeVEST that uses flexible solar panels on the shoulders to recharge gadgets in the pockets. The idea is that you can now keep all of your gadgets charged, even if you are spending an extended period of time away from a power source. The solar charging is an addition to an existing jacket with features including 42 hidden pockets that can be wired together through the jacket lining."
In the interests of political correctness I wish to formally protest this device.
It doesn't take into account the needs of miners, subway operators and sewer workers. I dream of a world in which these forgotten peoples and we surface dwellers can join hands in peace and rejoice in equal-opportunity recharging.
Thank you.
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Anyone get flashbacks to old Sci-Fi shows? with the gigantic shoulder pads? Can we get high stainless steel collars on our jackets too now?
Can't wait to walk past TSA with this hooked up to my pda, mp3 player and gameboy advance.
Last one in jail is a fascist.
Now I can walk around looking like a high-tech docking station. Wonder what the neighbors will think.
and you will realize how charged u want to stay.
This presupposes that geeks would expose themselves to natural sunlight.
Get prepared to answer about one million questions when you put it through the xray machine. To be on the safe side, arrive about 2 days prior to your departure time.
So they make a geek toy that requires sunlight to operate? How will we maintain our pasty complexions?
I could kill you, sure, but I could only make you cry with these words
Waoh, the rumours of the daystar are TRUE!
'The staff in the hand of a wizard may be more than a prop for age,' -Hamá, the doorward
Does anyone else see a fundamental flaw in the assumptions about the potential market?
Darl: "Your honor, the vest is called a SCOttevest. It is a clear indicator that our IP has been incorporated in this vest!"
Judge Scott: "I'm not amused."
Perfect For
- Skiing/Snowboarding
- Photography
- Traveling
- Hiking
- Law enforcement
Law enforcement... cool. Now the cops can keep their 50kV stun guns charged all the time!-- Power corrupts, but PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
You put the hood up and walk through a car wash.
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...when it starts raining? ...when you try to get through airport security? ...when someone h4X0rs your jacket via Bluetooth? ...when you can't find your pager/cellphone because you have 42 different pockets?
Personally, I think they haven't thought this one through. Solar power is for wimps. My jacket has a 17-foot lightning rod attached for energy collection. (It was either that or the rubber-soled-shoe/shag-pile-carpet combination, but that only works indoors.)
These sigs are more interesting tha
Now where did I put those keys?
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
It's not designed for Morlocks.
Can I get one with a built in tin-foil lined hood?
Beep beep.
"fat, overweight geek with 17 gadgets in his pockets"
Mod -1, Redundant (is there any other kind of geek?)
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain
For you /. types who need a reason to go outdoors, hook your solar-jacket up to one of these, and you'll never go back inside again!
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. - Geek's corollary to Clarke's law
Think bigger, ScottEVest.
>>Electrodes on your nipples?
:)
Powered by your very own solar panels. No sense wasting taxpayer money on electricity.
Huh?