Your Heartbeat Your New iPod/iPhone Charger?
08.16.07 - 01:21pm
What would it be like to live in a world void of the need to plug in and charge your mobile phone or your iPod? It may be world we are closer to living in than we think.
“There is a big drive towards using wireless devices, but one of the challenges in supplying power to these devices is that 
batteries have a finite supply that needs to be replaced. We have a spin-out company that is now looking at powering pacemakers from the movement of the heart. ”
“As the power consumption of electronic devices continues to fall, the opportunity to use these devices to power them becomes more apparent. The potential is there for devices like mobile phones and MP3 players being at least augmented by vibration generators. There is quite a lot of energy available on a human such as the impact of a heel on the floor which could also be used,” said Dr Steve Beeby.
