I hate batteries

[jason]

These days, the most common problem with computer chips is their power consumption. Apple reportedly left IBM because Big Blue could not figure a way to get a cool-enough-running G5 into a PowerBook. So, research has turned to using the human body as a medium for data transfer. At the International Solid State Circuits Conference, researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology modified an iPod nano to use a human finger to complete the circuit, powering the little guy’s headphones so long as contact remained. Most of these chips are at this point just research topics and are in no way ready for prime time, but if this conference is any indication, we may be headed toward a world where your very person is all the battery power you would ever need.

Chips that really get under your skin [CNet News.com]

 
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[karimsultan.livejournal.com]

Imagine if these things ended up getting developed and released by a bunch of competing companies as a myriad of lifestyle products. What would happen if you had too many on you at once? Do you think we'll live to see the first human being 'run out of batteries?'

K

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

and you know what that would mean, right? A new product. Cadbury Battery... oh, we have them already, they're called Powerbars. O_o