Less than a year after the Kickstarter campaign for his BauBax jacket raised a whopping $9.2 million, he's debuting his next project -- clothes that wirelessly charge your devices.

The project launched Tuesday on Kickstarter with a goal of raising $100,000.

With this line, his Seattle startup Baubax is turning jackets, jeans and shorts into mobile charging stations.

The clothing, which is machine washable, has copper wire built into it and a wireless charging pad that's stitched inside a pocket.

BauBax jacket

You charge an iPhone by putting it into a BauBax iPhone case and slipping it into the pocket. Android phones don't require the case because they have built-in wireless charging capability. The power source is a battery bank that fits into a wallet you carry in the clothes.

Sanghavi said the battery bank can provide one full charge to a smartphone, two charges to a smartwatch and four to bluetooth earphones.

The battery bank can be charged with a special BauBax charging pad. It takes two to four hours to recharge the battery bank.

Sanghavi, 30, had the idea for this wireless charging system when he was in Hong Kong.

"We were there for meetings with manufacturers. We were using our devices for GPS and other things a lot and constantly draining the battery," he said.

In all, BauBax is designing 27 products for wireless charging, including sweatshirts, jackets and wristlets, which can charge a smartphone inside of it. The clothes range from $140 to $170.

The collar in each jacket also features a plug-in point to charge wireless earbuds. A separate charging unit inside the jacket's sleeve can charge an AppleWatch.

The BauBax jackets can wirelesly charge devices, including earphones.

All the accessories, including the BauBax battery bank, charging pad, iPhone case, wristlet and wallet, are sold separately.

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By Parija Kavilanz

Source: CNN