Aug 28 2007 Body Heat Activated Chair Changes Colors
Erin Hayne and Nuno Gonçalves at Visual Reference Studio have created a line of furniture that changes color based on body heat. Named the "Swamp Collection", the line is so expensive you have to contact them for pricing, then wait 6 weeks for the piece to arrive. I got to see one of these and sit on it, but it burst into flames and set the house on fire as soon as my privates made contact. I'm just too hot. My Hypercolor shirts never did that.
Body Heat Activated Chair Changes Colors [ohgizmo]
Aug 17 2007 Body Heat Electricity
Those clever German researchers are at it again, this time over at the Fraunhofer Institute. They have developed "entire electronic systems" that can run off of body heat turned electricity. The picture above shows a wireless transmitter being powered by the heat given off by a person's hand via a thermoelectric generator. Of course the wireless transmitter only needs 200 millivolts to operate. So when they say "entire electronic systems" can run off body heat, I think what they meant was pretty much nothing. Wake me up when I can power a portable videogame system by holding it. Ka-ching! Don't steal that idea.
Body Heat Electricity [engadget]
