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A Piezo Patch: Body movement input, electricity output

News: Body Implants    January 28, 2010
Movement implies energy. When you move, it requires energy in the muscles to make the motion, but the motion itself contains energy (mechanical) and that can be transferred to something else. That something else could be a silicon rubber patch with an embedded piezoelectric material, recently developed by research at Princeton University (New Jersey, USA) [...]
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Nano-coating for better neuro-implants

News: Nano-medicine    October 11, 2009
One of the key difficulties with all bio-implants is rejection by the body. Traditionally, rejection had to be fought with relatively powerful immuno-suppressant drugs that tended to have severe side-effects. A lot of effort has gone into finding less problematic ways of reducing rejection, and this new study using nanotechnology is promising: The new brain [...]
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Bionic lenses

News: Bio-implant    October 1, 2009
Researchers at the University of Washington, in Seattle, led by Babak Parviz, have incorporated electronic circuitry into a plastic lens, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for “on-eye” displays, transistors for computing, a radio for wireless communication and an antenna for collecting power from a radio source, such as a mobile phone, in a person’s pocket. [Reference:The [...]
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