This tiny little gadget comes from Swiss scientists who designed a blood-powered turbine that can fit in arteries and power internal electronics, such as a pacemaker (for the present) or a mathematic brain co-processor (for the near future).
Pfenniger explains:
| The heart produces around 1 or 1.5 watts of hydraulic power, and we want to take maybe one milliwatt. A pacemaker only needs around 10 microwatts |
Each turbine can produce some 800 micro Watts of energy. Read the original article in this link.
Photo: Alois Pfenniger, ARTORG Cardiovascular Engineering, University of Bern, Switzerland |
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