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An article of clothing with an on-demand power supply for electrical devices is provided. The power supply includes stiff planar fuel cell devices that are distributed in a plane. The number of fuel cells is dependent on the power requirements for the electrical devices. The planar stiff fuel cells

An article of clothing with an on-demand power supply for electrical devices is provided. The power supply includes stiff planar fuel cell devices that are distributed in a plane. The number of fuel cells is dependent on the power requirements for the electrical devices. The planar stiff fuel cells are flexibly interconnected in the plane by a flexible interconnection, which allows the fuel cells to move with respect to each other out of the plane. This further allows the power supply to be nicely integrated in an article of clothing and minimizes negative impact to a body region or to the article of clothing. The electrical and fuel connections between the fuel cells are integrated with the flexible interconnection. To further integrate and increase ease of operation a control system is included to control the on-demand power supply or control power levels for the electrical device.

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What is claimed is: 1. An apparatus with on-demand power supply for an electrical device, comprising:a. an article of clothing having an interior surface;b. two or more stiff planar fuel cell devices, distributed in a plane, that deliver electrical power to one or more electrical devices, wherein a

What is claimed is: 1. An apparatus with on-demand power supply for an electrical device, comprising:a. an article of clothing having an interior surface;b. two or more stiff planar fuel cell devices, distributed in a plane, that deliver electrical power to one or more electrical devices, wherein a broad face of each planar fuel cell device is substantially aligned in the plane; andc. at least one flexible interconnection for interconnecting said two or more stiff planar fuel cell devices, said flexible interconnection allowing said stiff planar fuel cell devices to move with respect to each other out of said plane, and said flexible interconnection having integrated therein or therewith electrical connections and fuel connections for each of stiff planar fuel cell devices;c. wherein the fuel cell devices are removably coupled to the article of clothing substantially near the interior surface of the article of clothing, wherein the plane formed by the fuel cell devices substantially parallels the interior surface of the article of clothing, and wherein the fuel cell devices are polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells.