Orange designs a t-shirt that can charge your phone from loud music!

You are in a festival venue with a low battery smartphone and can't find a place to charge your phone? You can now charge your phone from the vibrations the sound systems produced in the event, thanks to a noise-responsive technology-implanted t-shirt from Orange, the U.K’s leading cellular service provider. The technology has been demonstrated by Orange as a prototype.

Orange Sound Charge T-Shirt

Orange is to test the efficiency of its prototype t-shirt at the upcoming Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts of U.K. The company says that the t-shirt is capable to charge a smartphone as vibrations of the sound system hit the A4-size piece of piezoelectric film that is embedded with it. The piezoelectric film can suck up the pressure from the sound waves in the air.

Orange Sound Charge T-Shirt

The technology later converts vibrations from music system into power and stores in batteries before beginning to charge your smartphone. You can start charging the smartphone connecting it with the t-shirt anytime you want. The louder the music is, the faster the mobile gets charged. The technology lights into the extensive scope of alternative power to charge handheld devices.

Developers of the mobile charging t-shirt are due to test it during the Glastonbury Festival, which is to kick off on June 22, 2011. Orange is the official Communications partner of the Festival. It will be tested which acts are the best to charge the smartphone with the technology. This is what Andrew Pearcey, head of sponsorship at Orange U.K, has to say about the Orange Sound Charge technology,

In a vibrant festival environment such as Glastonbury, sound is such an obvious medium that it seemed like a natural fit to use it in the development of this year's prototype.

Via: Orange/Geeky-Gadgets