Energy Harvesting From Skin Temperature for Battery-Free, Wearable Electronics 📦

20    23 Jan 2021 03:20 by u/XakwithanX

Development of flexible thermoelectric devices with maximized flexibility and high efficiency; enabling mass production with high yield by automated process, commercialization of self-powered wearable devices.

3 comments

7 u/sonorousAssailant 23 Jan 2021 03:23
I'm pretty sure the plot of The Matrix specifically demonstrates why this is a bad idea.
1 u/MrMoneyMan 23 Jan 2021 05:33
Lol came here to say this.
3 u/DaGov 23 Jan 2021 07:15
Sci-tech daily, like most science 'journalism' today is absolute garbage. It's a neat technology, but it is nowhere near what the article title makes it out to be, and it's impractical on many levels. 1) The substrate is made from silver nano-wires, which means that it will be expensive as hell with no theoretical way to reduce that cost. 2) The amount of power is miniscule. 7 microwatts per cm² when used on human skin. That means a solar calculator that uses .01 watts of power would need over 1400 cm² of the material to run it. Which means basically your entire torso would need to be covered to power the same thing that runs on a 3 cm² solar cell, inside an office.