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Microchip Powered by Body Heat

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-couldn't-power-an-8088 dept.

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.

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  1. Yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But does it run Linux?

  2. Yo0 Insensitive clod? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    grandstanders, the Sure that I've 1. Th3re7ore it's minutes now while