Originally Posted by thefairydandy:
“I think that a discreet battery sewn throughout the lining could power a small amount of heat (like an electric blanket), OR a phone charger. There wouldn't need to be much heat to make a difference if the outer lining above the heat pack kept the heat in.
The heat pack could also provide targeted relief if it could be controlled by an app - it could relieve back or period pain if you could select to just target one area.
The lights... nah! Naff in the extreme.”
So basically instead of being solar powered it would become a wearable battery pack, but with heating elements all over it too?
The solar panels could provide a small amount of heat as well, but nothing like enough to have any pain relieving qualities. Is period pain normally felt in the upper body? To control it via an app you would need a wireless receiver too.
A solar powered phone charger jacket would work or at least it would extend the battery life somewhat, and that would also give off some heat. But what if you wanted to charge your phone on a hot day? It wasn't thought through. But they did sell some on the basis that it could be redesigned to be practical.
The boys product, thought up at the last minute, did work but putting a camera on a sweatshirt was stupid. The only place for such a thing would be on some kind of hat, so it took video at eye level of what you were looking at and could easily be taken off.