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Microchip Powered by Body Heat
An anonymous reader writes "MIT and Texas Instruments researchers have designed a chip that they say could be up to 10 times more energy efficient than current technology. The chip's power consumption is so low that devices with the chip may even be able to be recharged using the owner's body heat." The intent is to use these in medical applications like pacemakers where one would expect to have the free power source.
We know. It did seem like a familiar read.
If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... Checkmate.
answer to number 1: No, about 60-70% of the energy we produce is heat energy. Much of it is excess that is lost through the skin. A small chip that doesn't need much power won't steal your body heat and make you cold.
O.o
This research has been covered at least twice on Slashdot recently:
Researchers Design Microchip Ten Times More Efficient
Low Voltage Is Key To Energy-Efficient Chip
Maybe those should be included as related articles in the summary, or something...