In a move that will give chills to fans of the dystopian movie The Matrix, scientists have developed a wearable device that could use the human body to replace batteries.
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February 11, 2021
The next USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) Scientist-in-Charge (SIC) has been named, and it’s a name that Island of Hawai‘i residents may be familiar with Dr. Ken Hon! Ken will be the 21
rst Scientist-in-Charge filling a position originally created by Thomas A. Jaggar, who founded HVO in 1912 and directed it until 1940.
Ken Hon, Scientist-In-Charge of the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. HVO monitors the active volcanoes in Hawaii and is located in Hilo, Island of Hawai‘i.
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Written by AZoSensorsFeb 12 2021
Scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder have designed a novel, affordable wearable device that turns the human body into a biological battery.
A thermoelectric wearable device worn as a ring. Image Credit: Xiao Lab.
Described recently in the
Science Advances journal, the device is so flexible that it can be worn like a bracelet, ring, or any other accessory that makes contact with the skin. The device also taps into an individual’s natural heat using thermoelectric generators to turn the internal temperature of the human into electricity.
In the future, we want to be able to power your wearable electronics without having to include a battery.
In 1997, Saxton Rose and his wife, Elizabeth Pacheco Rose, met in their junior year of undergrad in the music library at the University of Colorado Boulder and have been together ever since.
âOur first kind of meeting was playing together,â said Rose, interim dean of the UNCSA School of Music and associate professor of bassoon at the university. âWe had a concert that a friend of ours organized at his church. He was trying to get us together, I think, so he asked each of us to play on this concert. We played together in a little chamber ensemble, and thatâs how we started dating.â