Orange announces mobile charging T-shirt

Orange announces mobile charging T-shirtMobile phone major, Orange has announced a new innovative T-shirt, which will allow users to charge their mobile phones by converting sound into an electrical charge.

The new product will be tested at this year's Glastonbury festival. The company says hat the festival records enough aural stimulation to charge a device like smartphone. The charger with the T-shirt comes with exchangeable leads and is compatible with most smartphones.

The users will be able to remove inner charging system to wash the T-shirt. The T-shirt has an A4 panel of a modified film and acts like a large microphone that records soundwaves, which are converted into electric charge.

The T-shirt from Orange is still in its development stage but people during Glastonbury will be able to charge their mobile phones at one of several ‘Chill ‘n’ Charge’ tents near the site.

Orange's Head of Sponsorship at Orange UK, Andrew Pearcey, said, “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.”