Electronic implantable medical devices all generally suffer from a limited lifespan because the batteries inside of them can’t last forever. Yet, the body is full of various sources of energy that are waiting to be tapped. Perhaps the most obvious are the beating and pulsating heart and lungs, and now researchers headed by John A. Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign are reporting the development of a flexible integrated device that can harvest mechanical energy of moving organs and turn it into stored electricity.
Read more here: http://www.medgadget.com/2014/01/energy-harvesting-from-moving-organs.html
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