The line between tech and biology seems to get a little blurrier every day with Chinese researchers announcing they’ve created a wireless biodegradable charger that does not require removal and can be safely implanted inside the human body.
I mean, this is practically a scene right out of William Gibson’s book Neuromancer.
We’ve been implanting pacemakers into humans since 1958, but these have always needed an external power source, or at the very least have long lasting batteries.
There was some recent reporting of researchers working on a way to harness human being’s heartbeat as an energy source, but the implementation of this technology is still years away. Now researchers have made advancements in the use of wireless energy source to bean energy into a person’s body to power medical devices ranging from pacemakers to monitors for glucose or drug delivery.
Sign me up when the Borg assimilation begins.
Chinese researchers create a wireless charger for implants