{"id":1226,"date":"2014-01-30T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T01:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2014-01-30T12:30:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T01:30:36","slug":"plasma-powered-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=1226","title":{"rendered":"plasma-powered batteries&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>super-cool, almost about time really&#8230; http:\/\/www.springwise.com\/edible-batteries-power-tech-bodies\/<\/p>\n<header>\n<h1>Edible batteries could power tech inside our bodies<\/h1>\n<p>Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created ingestible batteries, that could make internal devices a possibility.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springwise.com\/country\/united_states\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"United States\" src=\"http:\/\/www.springwise.com\/_assets\/img\/icons\/flags\/24\/united_states.png\" \/><\/a>\u00a029 Jan 2014\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.springspotters.com\/\">Spotted by\u00a0<\/a>Raymond Neo, written by Springwise<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Edible batteries could power tech inside our bodies\" alt=\"alttext\" src=\"http:\/\/www.springwise.com\/img\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ediblebatteries.png\" width=\"760\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<article>While wearable technology is bringing smart devices even closer to home, another emerging field is the development of electronics that actually sit inside our bodies. We recently reported on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.springwise.com\/edible-barcodes-set-tackle-pharma-fraud\/\">TruTag<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 ingestible nanoscale electronic tags that could help tackle pharma fraud \u2014 and now researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/homepage\/health\/2013\/spring\/incredible-edible.shtml\">edible batteries<\/a>, that could be used to power biodegradable devices located inside the body.Developed by professors Christopher Bettinger and Jay Whitacre, from the materials science and engineering and biomedical engineering department at the institution, the idea stems from the need for a power source for biodegradable electronic materials that could have a number of medical benefits \u2014 timed drug delivery or health tracking, for example. The result is a non-toxic sodium ion battery that uses melanin derived from an organic material \u2014 cuttlefish ink. Since the ink is fairly commonly available, the cost of the edible batteries is low. The team says that the devices could be ingested in much the same way as a pill, without the need for prior sterilization, and any casing is biodegradable and deteriorates in the body. Combined with other technology, the batteries could have wide-ranging use \u2014 both medical and otherwise. In the near future, Bettinger imagines that humans could be taking his battery pills once a day in order to keep internal devices running. What possible inventions could be brought about thanks to this development? Website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/homepage\/health\/2013\/spring\/incredible-edible.shtml\">www.cmu.edu<\/a> Contact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:cbetting@andrew.cmu.edu\">cbetting@andrew.cmu.edu<\/a><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>super-cool, almost about time really&#8230; http:\/\/www.springwise.com\/edible-batteries-power-tech-bodies\/ Edible batteries could power tech inside our bodies Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created ingestible batteries, that could make internal devices a possibility. \u00a029 Jan 2014\u00a0Spotted by\u00a0Raymond Neo, written by Springwise While wearable technology is bringing smart devices even closer to home, another emerging field is the development &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=1226\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">plasma-powered batteries&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-quantified-self","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}