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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Seems it's a re-write of this article from Monday, leaving out the transmitter part.

https://hackaday.com/2024/11/04/power-over-skin-makes-powering-wearables-easier/

(their source from 3 weeks ago) https://youtu.be/5PEN04-jyCU?si=JzzeLW6KalDKxOss

Power isn't harvested from the human body it's transmitted (in really small amounts) across the body from one device to another, using capacitive coupling and 40MHz AC voltage.