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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."
Who in this crowd is normally found out in the sun?
.... they make us geeks/nerds/dorks go outside!!!
wouldn't this require us to... *shudder*... actually go out in sunlight???
Fiends. Next thing you know they'll be selling tanning beds for vampires.
There actually existed a crazy TSA proposal that all airline passengers would have been required to strip naked and put on (at the passengers' expense, of course) flimsy tight-fitting sci-fi looking spandex jumpsuits with no pockets and with little booties sewn into the feet like childrens pajamas, in order to be allowed to board airliners, so there would be no way to conceal weapons or bombs on their persons. Their normal clothing they wore to the airport would be packed into containers and sent along with the checked baggage in the cargo hold, and they could change back into their street clothes once they got to their destination airport.
Good looking chicks would look fine in these jumpsuits, but most folks would look mighty scary. I don't think most would want to see me in one, as I guarantee I would likely have a constant erection showing thru for the duration of the whole flight if I had to wear a flimsy spandex jumpsuit in public with nothing underneath, especially if there were any good looking chicks on the flight wearing them also.
There actually existed a crazy TSA proposal that all airline passengers would have been required to strip naked and put on (at the passengers' expense, of course) flimsy tight-fitting sci-fi looking spandex jumpsuits with no pockets and with little booties sewn into the feet like childrens pajamas, in order to be allowed to board airliners, so there would be no way to conceal weapons or bombs on their persons. Their normal clothing they wore to the airport would be packed into containers and sent along with the checked baggage in the cargo hold, and they could change back into their street clothes once they got to their destination airport.
Now, good looking chicks would look fine in these jumpsuits, but most folks would look mighty scary. I don't think most would want to see me in one, as I guarantee I would likely have a constant erection showing thru for the duration of the whole flight if I had to wear a flimsy spandex jumpsuit in public with nothing underneath, especially if there were any good looking chicks on the flight wearing them also.