The basis of the 2x4-inch "Digital Tattoo Interface" is a Bluetooth device made of thin, flexible silicon and silicone. It´s inserted through a small incision as a tightly rolled tube, and then it unfurls beneath the skin to align between skin and muscle. Through the same incision, two small tubes on the device are attached to an artery and a vein to allow the blood to flow to a coin-sized blood fuel cell that converts glucose and oxygen to electricity. After blood flows in from the artery to the fuel cell, it flows out again through the vein.
This makes sense. Oxygen and glucose carry enough energy to power the most complex system we know of, the brain, so there should be plenty left over to power your cell phone too. I wonder if this would increase your appetite? I knew blood-powered implants were being developed, but I had no idea we were anywhere near a prototype. Awesome.
You know I'm going to say it...
We live in the future.
2 comments:
That's amazing. A. Maze. Ing.
I'm telling Warren Ellis.
Why, of all things, a phone?
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