Hey, that’s our stuff. we do a ton of different types of battery free stuff beyond this.
Check out bioelectronics.northwestern.edu and rogersgroup.northwestern.edu
I've always wondered why we can't build devices that process blood sugar into electricity to power themselves. Or blood pressure/flow itself.
I think MIT developed a glucose fuel cell that can take energy from blood. But the safeguards you'd need there (and the ability to ensure it remains clean/usable) are probably a whole lot more complex than building just the fuel cell.
That said, I'd love to have something that could pull a little excess glucose from the ol' bloodstream.
Yeah all of the complex chemical reactions our bodies do are handled by structures which self-repair when damaged. Our technology level isn't that advanced yet. Any in body system would almost certainly need to be replaced more often than a battery + inductive charger combo would.
That said, it would be awesome if we could and this research are small stepping stones on that path.
I mean, your muscles are pretty good at that, they can even turn that energy into useful work!
Isn't it easier to eat such that there's no excess in the first place?
No? I mean I'm with you that it sounds like a really bad idea and would probably not end well, but laying on a table so someone can implant a device that handles it for you forever does sound a whole lot easier than having to actively balance your intakes for your entire life.
I totally understand the appeal, hell I'd do it myself if you could give me a guarantee, my problem with it is there is no guarantee and it's 99.9% likely to not actually be safe.
But then you wouldn't get cyberpunk, at least till some septic shock happens