Thursday, 17. June 2004
Topic: SCIENCE - on June 17, 2004 at 12:31:00 PM CEST
Power implant aims to run on body heat
Life-saving medical implants like pacemakers and defibrillators face a big drawback: their batteries eventually run out. So every few years, patients need surgery to have the batteries replaced.
Now a company in New York state is planning to tackle the problem by providing patients with an implantable power source that recharges their implant's batteries using electricity generated by the patient's own body heat.
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