Urine Powered Battery Developed

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday August 15, 2005 @10:13AM from the powered-by-relief dept.

Saeed al-Sahaf writes "Research investment into developing smaller and cheaper chips to process information in disposable health tests has been significant, but they were still reliant on an external power source. The researchers at Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology think they have overcome this problem with their latest urine powered battery. From the article "The battery is composed of paper, soaked in copper chloride, sandwiched between layers of magnesium and copper. The whole thing, once laminated in plastic, is just a millimeter thick, and 6cm by 3cm in size." The breakthrough promises a cheap and disposable power source for home health tests."

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Re:Next up: by otis+wildflower · 2005-08-15 10:35 · Score: 0, Offtopic

WHO RULES BARTERTOWN!?!?!
Quickest way to do slashdot posts by wilsoniya · 2005-08-15 17:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

1. Navigate to www.engadget.com
2. Find cool story
3. Google text of that cool story (as to mask the location where that cool story was first discovered)
4. CTRL+A, CTRL+C
5. Create new slashdot post, CTRL+V
6. PROFIT

Anybody else seeing a lot of slashdot/engadget mirror posts?

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