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Advertisement from Compumedia 12.3.2011

Don’t waste your energy - Enbody heat exchange and storage outfits

Now your Communicator can work everywhere, everywhen - free power from your own body heat!

YES! You, too, can store the heat emitted by your body 24 hours a day!

Enbody outfits resemble an artificial skin, and store the excess heat emitted by your body before converting it into useful electrical energy. Because it is the extra heat - and only the extra heat - that is removed, you always remain comfortable in your snug-fitting Enbody gear. The Enbody outfit includes hat, undershirt, undertrousers, gloves, and socks or stockings. The most important items are the hat, gloves and socks, since up to 80% of excess body heat escapes via the head and limbs.

The heat energy absorbed by your Enbody is passed through a transformer unit, to which you can for instance hook up your personal communicator. The energy charge is sufficient to power up two halogen hand-torches for full-time use, or to maintain routine operation of a communicator, regardless of your location. You can also buy a separate plasma accumulator to collect energy for future use.

The stretch fabrics used in the Enbody outfits are soft to the touch and feel comfortable against the skin, and are the result of years of laboratory development on a discovery made some 15 years ago, namely “plastic cotton”. The American company Agracetus Inc., a subsidiary of W. R. Grace and Co., succeeded in creating a genetically engineered cotton plant, combining the preferred appearance and texture of cotton with some enhanced fibre properties. Essentially, the cotton plants were modified to produce a specific biopolymer (polyhydroxyalkanoate), within the normally hollow centre (or lumen) of the cotton fibres, creating what is basically a cotton fibre with a polyethylene-like core. Since then, the plant has been further developed to generate cores of various different plastics - and one of these is employed in Enbody to transfer heat for conversion into useful energy.

Enbody outfits are available in a range of models and attractive colours, in stretch sizes from XXS to XL. Work is under way on a new virtual surfacing, which will allow users to change their Enbody colouring and patterns to suit their moods or specific requirements - for example while out hunting or on military exercises.

Learn more about Enbody and pick out your own model from the video on the CompuClassifieds site: sat.web. ML76-331-ENB.

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