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Turn Your Body Into a Battery With This Self-Healing Wearable – Interesting Engineering
The new devices can generate about one volt of energy for every 0.155 sq in (1 sq cm) of skin space.
It’s the stuff of science fiction: using your own body to power your electronics. And yet it is finally here.
Researchers at CU Boulder have developed a new, low-cost wearable device that is stretchy enough that you can wear it like a ring, a bracelet, or any other accessory and it transforms the human body into a battery.
“In the future, we want to be able to power your wearable electronics without having to include a battery,” said in a statement Jianliang Xiao, senior author of the new paper…
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