Nanogenerator powers-up inside your veins

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology are in the process of developing a nanogenerator, a tiny device which produces energy from flowing blood, constricting blood vessels, or beating hearts. Researchers say that the devices could be used to power implantable biomedical electronics, or might be employed in biosensing, environmental monitoring, and personal electronics. The nanodevices generate power while warm-chillin' in bodily fluids or "other liquids," using ultrasonic waves as their energy source. Now if we can just combine this with the bloodstream bot, our self-powered swarm of robotic terror will be complete.

[Via Physorg]

[PhAsR @ Jul 23rd 2007 2:36AM]

lets welcome the age of nanobots and IMMORTALITY! XD

[Johnny Appleseed @ Jul 23rd 2007 2:55AM]

And this is how the Borg were created. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

[ssuk @ Jul 23rd 2007 3:36AM]

go outside.

[Tracy in Cary @ Jul 23rd 2007 11:17AM]

Nope. This isn't the path to borg-ness. Notice how small and practical this device is?

To be borg, you need to be covered in big clunky crap with some vacuum hoses sticking out of random places.

To see the birth of the borg, find a car shop that specializes in Ford Pintos.

[logyk @ Jul 23rd 2007 3:06AM]

The human body generates more bio- electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 B.T.U.'s of body heat... and smells really bad after doing so

[LordFarkward @ Jul 23rd 2007 4:20AM]

that's good news for the druggies. now instead of just donating blood every day, they can just become a power generator to earn some themselves some dough.

i'm pretty sure we have enough druggies in the world to solve our energy problem...

[Generic @ Jul 23rd 2007 3:29AM]

Does that mean I can charge my laptop with my bodily generated electricity. Just plug the laptop cable in... Ummmmm... No that won't work.

[L. Cyphre @ Jul 23rd 2007 3:32AM]

Great! Now that we have the power, we can get ourselves these new internal iPods and iPhones without all the problems of having to charge the batteries all the time!
I think you have to implant them in your skull and remove parts of the brain for it but hey, what do we need it for anyway?

[rpgSE.com @ Jul 23rd 2007 5:20AM]

Wasn't there a Dept of Defense prize ($1M) for a wearable power source to power the battery backs our troops have to wear?

As a follow up... I wonder if these things could impede our blood streams and make it easier for blood clots to form

Tex
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[Chuckles McGee @ Jul 23rd 2007 9:56AM]

Those Georgians. Go GIT them!

[StrangeBum @ Jul 23rd 2007 1:30PM]

+2 Internets for that picture, that's just great.

But to be honest, this seems pretty amazing, all this nanotechnology is developing so quickly. It may not be around at a standard consumer level to get this type of stuff done by time I could benefit from it, but my children and their children will definitely be able to live longer, fuller lives due to these types of advances.