The article under review presents the new Kickstarter campaign for BauBax Company, which now produces machine washable clothing, which has copper wire inside that helps to charge devices wirelessly, while they are in the pocket. That is the main new feature presented in the article, which is highlighted in many kings of clothing produced and functions the other BauBax products have.
Personally I think that this idea, which succeeded to make a lot of money for the project (more than nine million US dollars), will be very profitable for the future products and not just clothing. Probably all of us sometimes catch themselves on having forgotten to charge the phone at home or in the car, and we usually remember about it being somewhere far from the socket and having an urgent necessity to make an important call.
Apart from being useful for those people, whose memory it too busy for such things, this device will be make the life easier and will help us not to be in the capture of wire technology.
Among the other advantages of wireless charging, or inductive charging using the scientific term, are: protected connections between the advices (which will make no corrosion in the future, lower the level of electric fault risk etc); durability (because of the absence of need to plug and unplug the device all the time, there is considerably less deterioration on ports of the device); convenience and aesthetic beauty.
Despite of so many advantages, this technology also has cons, among them there are relatively high cost (products of BauBax Company cost 140-170 US dollars per product) and slow charging (when comparing to the wire charging). In my opinion, these disadvantages will not be long-termed, as the more people use it, the less the price will be over the years. And the technology will be improved any time possible, so the speed of charging will grow fast every year.
In general, the small disadvantages are not a trouble, the most important thing is that the new piece of technic progress came to our hands and may make or life easier and more convenient. So, that is a great opportunity for further progress inside this technology, and that is the only thing that really matters.
References
Kavilanz, P. (2016). These clothes can wirelessly charge your phone
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