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Comment by jychang

7 months ago

The human body consumes merely ~2000 calories a day. Really not that much energy, about the same as a 100W light bulb.

Even if you can capture every single bit of extra energy from a tshirt, you'd end up with a tiny fraction of 100W. Certainly not enough to power a mobile device like this.

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