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by Bruce Brown | September 5, 2022 | Enabling Tech
“Higher output than a conventional AA battery.” Those words grabbed Health Tech Insider publisher Alfred Poor’s attention. We’ve covered a variety of new battery technologies including 3D printed batteries, sweat-powered batteries, and...
by William McCleary | July 27, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Taking a cue from automatic watches that rely on the energy generated by the wearer, researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have created a battery-free wearable that can monitor vital signs in real-time. So far, their prototype can only track the...
by William McCleary | April 15, 2022 | Enabling Tech
The world of wearables just got an interesting new innovation with a free-form battery that can be printed on fabric. Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) developed this new lithium battery, the components of which (including its...
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by Unber Shafiq | September 21, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Researchers at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a sweat-powered battery that can make wearable devices more convenient for the user. It eliminates the need to recharge of wearable devices. The prototype of the NTU battery...
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by Bruce Brown | April 6, 2021 | Enabling Tech
If I were a battery, I might wonder what I did wrong and why teams of scientists around the world are working hard to do away with me. Engineers developing technology that harvests energy from magnetism, body heat, yarn, the human knee, water, and even bacteria all...
