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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday June 24 2017, @07:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-sweat-it dept.

Battery flat on your radio? Don’t sweat it. Or maybe that’s exactly what you should do. Sweat alone has been used to power a radio for two days, demonstrating the capability of a new skin patch.

The patch is a flexible square just a couple of centimetres across that sticks to skin. It contains enzymes that replace the precious metals normally used in batteries and feed off sweat to provide power. Getting enough power out of a biofuel cell to make it useful has proved tricky, but the latest version can extract 10 times more than before.

“We’re now getting really impressive power levels. If you were out for a run, you would be able to power a mobile device,” says Joseph Wang at the University of California, San Diego, who was in the team that worked on the technology.

The creators hope the approach can be used to power wearable health sensors.


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday June 24 2017, @10:50PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 24 2017, @10:50PM (#530712) Journal

    Bah, digital tuner!
    Mine it's a tubes radio. Even more, I built the tubes myself [dailymotion.com].
    (not really, but I thought is worth sharing)

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
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