If you’ve ever returned from a run or a workout in a hurry to ditch your sweat-soaked clothes and jump in the shower, you’ve probably never considered that your pile of discarded clothes could be a potential source of renewable energy, one that could eliminate the need to charge your wearable devices.
At Deakin University’s Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM), researchers in the Future Fibres Group have been working on a design to power wearable devices using sweat, which could make plug-in chargers obsolete. But rather than extracting sweat that has already transferred to your clothes, it generates electricity straight from your skin.
