Piezoelectric nanowires could lead to blood-powered iPods, cellphones
By Darren Murph 
posted Mar 29th 2009 11:54AM
posted Mar 29th 2009 11:54AM
You know what'll be awesome? Actual end products resulting from this presumably nonstop research on piezoelectric nanowires. Yet again we're hearing of a new group of researchers that have figured out a way to harness electricity from life's simplest things: walking, a heart beating or even the flowing of blood. Put simply, the gurus have discovered how to use zinc oxide nanowires in order to generate an electric current when "subjected to mechanical stress." The difference here, however, is that these critters could actually be implanted under the skin, though the scientists have made quite clear that there isn't a timetable for commercial production. In other words: yawn.[Via textually, image courtesy of NSF]
very nice
No energy is free.
I for one welcome our new blood sucking Fangdroid overlords. Now we will never be able to "pull the electric plug" on skynet.
But can it produce more bioelectricity than a human body's 25,000 BTUs of heat combined with a form of fusion to produce all the energy they would ever need???
now it won't be so bad when your girl is on the rag...at least she'll be able to charge your cell phone while shes bitching you out
I don't want to remember nothing. Nothing! You understand? And I want to be rich. Someone important. Like an actor. You can do that, right?
MY iPHONE KILLING ME.
ipods and iphones already run on sweat and blood.
@Onelove
No. I think it's more the blood of baby kittens.
What would be cool is that they would use blood-sugar and so we would all throw out our atom-powered netbooks and get liquid nitrogen cooled nehalem portables, just to get thinner and so we *need* to eat way more ben and jerries than is healthy or sane.
That is just too funny AND something to hope for!!!
When they come up with a technology that can power a device while watching porn, then we'll talk.
"Harnessing the power of the number one internet past time America, we are able to fully charge 10 devices simultaneously to full capacity in a period of 5 minutes. The technology is still limited to one use per day, but we're hoping to overcome it in the near future."
only one use?
"...life's simplest things: walking, a heart beating or even the flowing of blood."
Do you have any idea how complicated your circulatory system is!?
FG reference?
Yah, Family Guy references are usually fail in my book, but it was a perfect setup so I had to bite the bullet.
"Piezoelectric nanowires could lead to blood-powered iPods, cellphones"
Vampire-pods?
Uh.....pass.
Vampire power at its finest!
Your iPod will walk amongst the "unbricked".
iSuck uBlood
What if you have HIV? Can you infect the device?
LOL...
iPhone is closed because of AIDS
Developed to help the Spread of Aids.
seems like we're going to have "ports" for electricity in our spines and mini usb ports in our wrists.. upgrades.. that's good right?
No, my butt is NOT a charging port. :)
"umm hey can I borrow some blood to charge my cellphone?"
I already sold my arm, leg, and soul for my Apple products, now they want my blood? :-(
Its from Blood FLOW not the exchange of blood...readdddd people read
we did, we're just kidding. gosh. darren started it :/
uh huhhh..
This isn't creating energy. It's using the kinetic energy from the blood you pump. Thusly, it is slightly slowing your bloodflow. This must be used sparingly and you must talk to your doctor. Not to mention all the nasty infections that are possible and... Why the hell would they only mention iPods? Are iPod's effeciency's so low that they must be charged during the day? I'm pretty sure 18 hours of audio is the lowest possible.
Some researcher got really intrigued by "Bloodtrocution" by Dethklok, apparently
wow, now Apple can literally suck your blood ...
So essentially this mean that if trapped on a desert island with a friend, I could use his "resources" to keep my iPod powered for days.
I predict that in the near future will have ipods/other media player implanted under the skin of the forearm and a titanium bluetooth micro speaker implanted in our mastoid bone, and so we'll be able to hear lovely, lovely music without bothering anyone and spearing our inner ear while doing so... ohh the marvelousness of it all
...I can see it now, once skynet takes over, it'll star sending "voices" swaying, persuading and convincing us to exterminate each other. Oh the horror... brother against brother, father against son, son against father, and then just when all hope was almost lost, a single man, a simple but strong man, came to us, bringing peace, uplifting our faith in human race, steering our anger where it belonged...the machines. And so, our army was formed, a scant army but determined one, decided to win our pride back, to conquer what was rightfully ours, our land, our home...
day dreaming sry
Does this mean that now vampires will steal my phone?
so . . . this doesn't use chemical reactions to make the energy? well that's a rip off, seeing as RPI is developing technology that uses a paper thin flexible battery that is powered when blood or sweet, or any electrolyte for that matter is saturating it . . . http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2280 . . . so yeah, that's more like what you guys are joking about . . .
The newest iPod...The iPod condom!!!!
It recharges every time you have sex from.......well, yeah....
Right, all we needed was machines using humans as batteries.
Good tech though.
scary isnt it???
next the matrix... neo where are you :D
JUST HOOK IT UP TO MY VEINS!
This is some Matrix type shit...
This isn't gonna bode well for us during the uprising.
@EI8HT @
now it won't be so bad when your girl is on the rag...at least she'll be able to charge your cell phone while shes bitching you out
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Shell be able to provide enough juice for a small town in a 3rd world country!
This would be great for internal cellphones or an energy source for (bio)mechanical arms or legs, even other devices that you could house inside your body.
So this is powered by energy from the body, which is powered by food. Therefore, you have to eat more food to power this thing...
Sure, I'll be able to make an emergency phone call by wiggling my wrists a few times, but what if I'm not in the mood, what with how much more difficult it is to jerk off after the "augmentation?"
That pic reminds me of level 5 in R-Type... if the bottom were yellow, too.
Long time reader, first time poster..
What amazes me is that nobody here mentioned what kind of stress bogging down your blood flow would put on your heart. I think I'll pass on this one..
It'll be cool when you drop your ipod blood will come out:D
Funny because I've been trying to think about how to create a bio-car. This would definitely be a good start.