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Your head’s battery

By Sid Perkins / January 17, 2013

Scientists have designed a small electronic circuit (inside the two golden squares) that can monitor the strength of the natural battery in a guinea pig’s inner ear. The tiny device had to collect energy from the ear’s battery and then store it until there was enough power to transmit data to doctors. Credit: Mercier et al. (2012), Nature Biotechnology

Fluids in the inner ear can actually power an electronic device, such as an implant

Posted in Computers & Electronics, Tech & Math, Technology & Engineering | Tagged cochlea; Anantha Chandrakasan, current, ear surgeon, electrical engineer, electrodes, getinvolved, guinea pig, Harvard Medical School; Gene Frantz, implant, inner ear, MIT; Konstantina Stankovic, potential, Texas Instruments; battery, voltage