Cool solar clothes
Solar-powered clothes are what everyone will be wearing in 2010, helping to power your mobile phone or even monitor your heartbeat.
Our tip off isn't from fashion gurus, but from a scientific team who've invented a new cool method to coat materials with thin films of silicon - the key ingredient of any solar cell.
It could take 15 years for the first solar-powered textiles to strut from the lab to the catwalk. But they'll make today's solar panels look distinctly retro.
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