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Research team uses the human body to power wearables — addresses major obstacle of conventional batteries (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Tom's hardware is declining in quality steadily. Suggesting VR and phones is a joke based on a 2mW budget. Yes you can do computation but not what a layman thinks it would do based on the examples they give.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Agreed. I wish the source page had a better summary of the research paper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Power demand would have to drop significantly for that idea to work. I don’t think semiconductors are even capable of delivering enough computation with only 2 mW. Maybe a completely different sort of technology could pull it off, but currently there’s nothing like that in the horizon, so who knows if we’ll ever get human powered devices. Maybe some tiny computers with hardly any processing power could be a realistic application.