Medical Implants

Battery-free medical implants:

The supercapacitor they invented charges using electrolytes from biological fluids like blood serum and urine, and it would work with another device called an energy harvester, which converts heat and motion from the human body into electricity—in much the same way that self-winding watches are powered by the wearer’s body movements. That electricity is then captured by the supercapacitor.

“Combining energy harvesters with supercapacitors can provide endless power for lifelong implantable devices that may never need to be replaced,” said Maher El-Kady, a UCLA postdoctoral researcher and a co-author of the study.

Faster, please.

4 thoughts on “Medical Implants”

  1. That is awesome. And one of those things that seems so obvious in retrospect. Paraphrasing Feynman, everything is easy, once it’s been discovered.

    1. If everything is easy, once it’s been discovered, why is almost every paper in a scholarly journal so incomprehensible, that is, until you have devoted weeks if not months of study to it and found out how little new it contains? I include engineering journals in this — forget about mathematicians with their tortured use of terms-of-art, let alone their baroque use of symbols to describe, no, obscure the simplest of concepts.

  2. “which converts heat and motion from the human body into electricity”

    So…Matrix 1.0

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