What’s not to love about a gadget that can provide free electricity to your portable devices on-the-go? That’s the thinking behind these solar panel-packing sunglasses. Called the Self-Energy Generating Glasses, or confusingly SIG, this alien-eyewear will supposedly collect energy from sunlight and transfer it to a cellphone or iPod via a power jack at the end of one of the arms.
The SIG was designed by Hyun-Joong Kim and Kwang-Seok Jeong and would apparently use “cheap organic dye with nanotechnology.” They’re probably referring to MIT’s Solar Concentrating Windows here, which can work to improve solar performance on large surfaces like buildings, but you’ll unlikely get much juice from tiny eyeglass lenses.
Still, maybe in the future. The far off future. When we’ll be beaming power from space and/or using Wireless Power Transmission to power just about anything and everything. Ah, what a cancer-filled fantastic future that will be. Anyone got a SIG cig?
