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Ardica Moshi Power System Heats Your Winter Jacket, Charges Your Gadgets

Three layers of thick clothing not enough to keep your warm during winter?  Not to worry.  Ardica has a  solution in the form of the Ardica Moshi Power System, a lightweight power pack that heats up your outer wear and charges your portable gadgets.
Designed to integrate right into your clothing, it keeps up to 25 watts of power and provides up to 100 degrees of heat, able to keep you warm for up to nine hours at a time.  Even better, you can use it to replenish the batteries on your handheld devices, packing up to eleven full charges for your cellphone and twenty for an iPod.

The Moshi Power System works like a military power pack, fitting a wad of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries into a flat and flexible case.  Seven 2.75-inch panels are linked together inside a foam sleeve (that bends at the joints), allowing you to carry a load [...]

Solar Vest Makes Portable Charging A Wearable Proposition

Portable solar charging has never really picked up in a huge way, due largely to the pretty nominal power those small back-mounted panels can provide. Of course, if you can find a way to deck more solar cells, the greater the amount of charge you should be able to draw. I guess that’s the idea behind this OEM Solar Vest, which sports four panels lined up across the back, allowing it to process more light to turn into usable energy.
If you can suffer through the obvious fashion disaster (let’s be honest – that’s one ugly vest), the Solar Vest should wear like any regular outfit over your shirt. It fits in numerous types of gadget connectors right on the eight front pockets so you can use it to hold your electronics while it charges. An 8,800mAh battery is built-in, allowing it to store charge for later [...]