Self-Energy Converting Sun Glasses
Designers Hyun-Joong Kim & Kwang-Seok Jeong create the world’s first “Self-Energy Converting Sunglasses” or called SIG. The SIG sunglasses feature lenses made of dye solar cells that are able to collect energy throughout the day, turning them into electricity to power your small devices through the power jack at the back of the frame.
The dye solar cell is described by the designers of the SIG as ”cheap organic dye [used with] nano technology [providing] cheap but high energy efficiency.” Inexpensive, light, and visible-ray penetrable. The lens turns sunlight rays, (rays that would otherwise harm the eye,) into electrical energy.
[via yanko]
Yes, that’s the best solution for natural energy. But using eyeglasses as the solar panel is kinda strange. The best charging position is to look directly to the sun and that would probably be the best solution to blinding eyes!
There´s a hook: due to the lack of geometrical order on a µ-, nano- or even lower scale and only absorbing certain wavelengths the amount of voltage times current is too low to supply any device sufficiently enough. Would be better to absorb and transform mechanical energy converted by the human body (from electrochemical scales).