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The pop-science vision of clothing that generates electrical culture has moved a step closer. Research at RMIT University and the Australian National University on thin-film piezo-electrics could help open the door to materials that recharge small devices like mobile phones from someone using the keyboard. The study, published …

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  1. Head
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    Hmmm

    RMIT; Doing what they do best.

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  2. Peter Murphy
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    Funk not only moves, it can re-move, dig?

    If you get enough charge out of moving your fingers, imagine what current you'd get out of moving your booty! The article's right - it's like something out of science fiction. To be exact, it's like something off the back cover of "Mothership Connection" or other P-Funk albums.

    We may not get any flying cars. But a future I can dance to? I can live with that.

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  3. g e

    Nice. But...

    Modern touch phones don't have keyboards (bar a handful of models)

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  4. Mike 137 Silver badge
    WTF?

    Pardon??

    Wots "electrical culture" then?

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