An Origami Inspired Bacteria-Powered Battery

jan_jes writes: Origami is the Japanese art of paper folding created by Akira Yoshizawa, which can be used to create beautiful birds, frogs and other small sculptures. Last year a team of engineers from MIT and Harvard has developed an origami flat-pack robot (YouTube video) which can fold itself and crawl away without any human intervention. But now a Binghamton University engineer says this technique can be applied to building batteries, too. The battery generates power from microbial respiration, delivering enough energy to run a paper-based biosensor with nothing more than a drop of bacteria-containing liquid. This method should be especially useful to anyone working in remote areas with limited resources. The total cost of this potentially game-changing device is "five cents."

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Five cents?

[ArcadeMan]

The total cost of this potentially game-changing device is "Five cents".

Don't worry, the legal and the marketing departments will have that fixed very soon.

Akira Yoshizawa meet Al Gore

[frovingslosh]

Origami is the Japanese art of paper folding created by Akira Yoshizawa

I find it extremely hard to believe that Akira Yoshizawa, born in 1911, invented Origami. Oh sure, he apparently did a lot of Origami, as did others. But to claim he created the concept is a pretty bold claim.