Wearable battery-pack contest unzips winners (photos)

by CNET News.com  |  December 7, 2009, 10:00am PST  |  Image 1 of 9

Ardica Technologies announced Saturday in San Francisco the winners of its Power To The People competition, which challenged entrants to put its wearable battery pack to use.

More than 100 applicants submitted ideas in the competition. The judges had chosen nine finalists--four of whom received awards Saturday--for their ideas for the Moshi Power System, a wearable lithium-ion battery pack that provides hours of energy for heat, power, and charging.

Ardica gave each of the nine finalists $500 in seed money to develop their ideas into working prototypes.

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