Sweater features a wi-fi charger to maintain your devices topped up

A sweater containing tubes crammed with a liquid steel alloy can cost up wearable digital gadgets

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A sweater with the MeanderCoil++ system

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A sweater embedded with a coil crammed with liquid steel can wirelessly cost wearable or transportable digital gadgets, together with medical sensors, motion trackers and smartphones.

Wi-fi charging know-how is rising in recognition, and it has the potential to be constructed into clothes to cost small electronics gadgets whereas they're being worn. Nonetheless, this potential has but to be realised as a result of a wi-fi charger produces electromagnetic radiation which will harm human tissue after extended publicity over such an in depth vary.

Ryo Takahashi on the …