Made for the Cornell Design League Fashion Show this year, Abbey Liebman's solar powered dress "uses ultrathin flexible solar cells to power small electronics like phones and iPods."
"Parts of the dress come from Cornell University's Textiles Nanotech Laboratory, which teamed up with two Italian universities to create cotton threads that can conduct electrical currents, yet remain light and comfortable enough to feel like the good old cotton we all know and love to sleep in."
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