By adamg on Thu., 5/12/2022 - 12:20 pm
MIT News reports researchers at MIT and the Technical University of Munich have developed a tiny fuel cell that could convert glucose in a person's body into electricity - just the thing for powering various medical implants.
MIT's Jennifer Rupp came up with the idea while getting a routine blood-glucose test near the end of her pregnancy:
In the doctor’s office, I was a very bored electrochemist, thinking what you could do with sugar and electrochemistry. Then I realized, it would be good to have a glucose-powered solid state device. And Philipp [Simons] and I met over coffee and wrote out on a napkin the first drawings.
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I once knew a girl from MIT
By anon
Thu, 05/12/2022 - 1:04pm
She could certainly flip my breakers, but apart from the animal magnetism, there was no spark, so the relationship fizzled out.
Matrix
By cybah
Thu, 05/12/2022 - 1:39pm
Nice idea, considering the battery issues in many devices
but I can't help but think this is one inch closer to becoming the Matrix. "Humans become energy sources"
I'm not fat
By Kaz
Thu, 05/12/2022 - 2:42pm
I'm a battery for a love machine...that you plug into my elbow, right here.
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By SamWack
Thu, 05/12/2022 - 4:12pm
a bestseller for sure.
The last time I saw this idea
By Vicki
Thu, 05/12/2022 - 9:53pm
The last time I saw this idea, it was in a science fiction novel, a rather good one: Synners, by Pat Cadigan.
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