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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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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.
Doesn't even NEED devices attached. Run this through an Xray machine and pray you have your receipt and owners manual with you when they are trying to figure out why your jacket is wired up like a Christmas tree.
Never confuse volume with power.
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
Does anyone else see a fundamental flaw in the assumptions about the potential market?
... and I have to say that its crap.
The build quality is ludicrous - the magnet clasps fell out 3 days after I put it on.
Plus, even though I ordered a medium, it still seems like you have to be a fat, overweight geek with 17 gadgets in his pockets in order for it to fit right.
My opinion is this: don't get one unless you're going to walk around with $2,000 of gear stuffed into the pockets, because it won't fit right otherwise...
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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.
...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.)
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You have two options for charge that jacket:
1) Use it with you inside, but you can damage your skin appearence or get cancer that way
2) Leave the jacket staring on the sun, but the sun will damage your jacket (specially colors) and soon you will not be able to use it on yourself (you still can just carry it with you though)
I would prefer carry just that flexible solar panels on my pocket/car/wallet
Now where did I put those keys?
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It is water-proof and breathable, and you can't tell the difference between this and Gore-tex. Scott Jordan, President, www.scottevest.com
Scott Jordan, CEO www.scottevest.com
"production uses up more energy than they provide in their entire lifetime"
This is false. The energy used in production
is balanced by the energy produced after a couple
of years of solar energy production. Solar cells
can have a life time of over 20 years.
I'm not buying crap from this guy. I'd never heard of him until I got a spam listing one of his products (in all fairness, I have no reason to believe that this original spam was in any way affiliated with him). Apparently an image was linked from his web site, so when I reported it, his ISP got on the LART list. (this part is my conjecture) He ignored the request for info from his ISP, and as per their policy that he agreed to, they disabled his site. He didn't find out for a couple more days and then got really pissed at me (end my conjecture). So he emailed me and threatened to sue me for things like trying to destroy his business, taking his name (his last name is my first name), and some kind of trade infringement since we have the same name and we have businesses that work with portable computers. I told him where to stick it and to learn to be responsible for his web site and customers, he said I'd hear from his lawyer. A few months later I got a not-quite-spam from his company. (more conjecture follows) Either his ISP didn't think it was spam, they ignored the LART, or he learned to actually check up on his web site.
Either way I make sure to tell people not to do business with this loser.
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Scott Jordan, CEO www.scottevest.com
I came across some cells from the late 70's and they still produce electricity. Compare that with the production cost of a rechargeable battery or an alkaline and I am sure you will see that over the lifetime of the solar cell (which has yet to be determined) they end up costing next to nothing in comparison.
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
A battery (even a rechargable one) has negative energy costs too. It takes energy to manufacture them, plus all the energy that you get out has to be put in.
Mensa indeed.