Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are going Matrix-style. No, not the coats and shades. They’ve created a prototype nanogenerator that is supposedly capable of producing electrical current via the bending and relaxing of zinc oxide nanowires. Zinc oxide is non-toxic, which means the wires can be safely planted into our bodies to help convert our movements into meaningful electricity.
“Our bodies are good at converting chemical energy from glucose into the mechanical energy of our muscles,” Zhong Lin Wang, researcher from the institute said. “These nanogenerators can take that mechanical energy and convert it to electrical energy for powering devices inside the body.”
Will it create the possibility of OLED tattoos and Force Lightnings? What other creative/crazy ideas do you have?
April 20th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
i think its a good but its enslaving people to technology. just like prince charles said. he was right all the way.
April 20th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Power up the generators and when you are filing slow then just turn the electric energy back to chemical energy and pump it to the muscles. What a RUCH!
April 20th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
I want to have a plug in my shoulder so I can recharge my cellphone without being near an AC outlet.
I want LED flashlights implanted under a thin layer of semi-transparent synthetic skin in my forehead which I can turn on and off by thinking about it (synthetic skin will act like a tinted window of course, light can escape but it looks normal from the ‘outside’)
I also want a self-powered inner-ear mp3 player with an infinite crystal hard drive so I can listen to my music without headphones whenever I want.
Oh, and I also would like windows calc.exe wired into my brain so I can perform ridiculous mathematics instantly.
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Now go do my bidding….
April 20th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
That would be sweet Zero, having calc.exe implanted
I want to get all the implants so i basically turn into a walking (but human) computer, so i can play MMOG while sitting at my office at work
April 20th, 2006 at 11:53 pm
Lightning from my fingertips.
April 21st, 2006 at 12:03 am
i’m thinking of going full cyber like Batô from ghost in the shell.
April 21st, 2006 at 12:43 am
calc.exe implants are a lot closer than you might think….
http://www.kurzweilai.net
He’s doing all kinds of funky brain/computer research – REALLY
cool stuff.
April 21st, 2006 at 12:54 am
i will shock the teacher and blame someone else…then ill shock someone’s nuts..and last but not least im going to drink yoghurt..pwnz ya!
April 21st, 2006 at 4:08 am
Wow, thats pretty amazing, although it’s not like nature didn’t have the idea first, our imune system (lymph system) is pumped by us excercising. It would be cool the maybe snap your finders and have a toch light up in the index one, Gadget man here I come!
April 21st, 2006 at 4:30 am
I’d have nano fibres attached to my retina so I could store my sights to an internal crystal drive, I could send signals down them to my eye so I could have a HUD type display giving me terminator style readouts!
yum
May 12th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
id have lazer beams in my eyes cyclops style
August 10th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Is it cool? God, I hope so because I think I’m a G-Pig for something like this already in the making. Ever heard of the Fiber Disease or Morgellons? Yeah, that’s me. But unlike some of you commenters above, I don’t want this in my body. I gave no consent for this technology to be used on me. Anyway, please tell me why it would be cool because “I can be cool with it” if I were not scared to death. Thanks for any tips/knowledge you could give me…..
LJ