Wearable Solar, a potential clothing line, designed to fit today's fashion with the use of solar panels that are embedded into garments providing steady power onto your smartphones on the go. The project was led by Christiaan Holland, fashion designer Pauline van Dongen, and solar panel specialist Gertjan Jongerdan, and with a little help from students from the University of Applied Sciences in Nijmegan, Netherlands. A dress and a coat were created as prototypes and Van Dongen stated that she carefully studied the structure of human skin and rendered it to her own design. For example, the shoulder flaps, embedded with solar panels, are designed to unfold in broad daylight and folded away easily and can be worn invisibly.
"The coat contains fairly rigid solar cells, which is why I used a combination of wool and leather. These materials both provide the strength needed and are aesthetically pleasing," said Van Dongen. "In total some 48 solar cells are incorporated into modular leather panels, allowing a typical smartphone to be 50% charged if worn in the full sun for an hour."
