We are moving towards hyper technology age in which technology will become more like magic, and researchers are achieving the level of magic by their experiments. The cloth that can make you invisible like it is in Harry Potter is also discovered many years ago by researchers. Now your body can charge your devices. Yes, it is now a possibility. Find out in this article how this can become a possibility.
Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed technology that can charge single devices such as a pocketed mobile phone and other wearable devices attached to the body from a human body. For this, the human body will be used as a power transmission medium.
This system fully charges 10 wearable devices fitted on the body from a single power source a chance to fully charge for a period of more than 10 hours. It can use unused energy from electronics in a typical home or office environment to power wearables. This research has been published in the journal Nature Electronics.
Technology will eliminate battery requirement
“Batteries are the most expensive thing in wearable devices and make the design bigger,” said Gerald Yu, associate professor of the department of electrical and computer engineering at NUS. Our unique system has the ability to eliminate battery needs. This will give manufacturers a chance to reduce the production cost as well as reduce the gadget.”
Yu further said that without battery constraints, our new development could enable next-generation wearables such as ECG patches, gaming accessories, and remote diagnostics. This technology will surely give generations leap to the devices if it became a reality. The current generation of technology and maybe the next generation are not able to remove the batteries as this technology is still in the research phase, and when it came still, it will remain costly. After a while, this technology will become affordable.
Mechanism of charging
NUS team has designed a receiver and transmitter system that uses a power transmission medium and energy harvesting for the body of humans for wireless powering. All receivers and transmitters have a chip that is used as a springboard to increase coverage throughout the body.
In this, users can only fit the transmitter on a single power source such as a smartwatch tied to the user’s wrist, while multiple receivers can be fitted anywhere on the person’s body. It can then remove energy from the system source and charge other wearables on the user’s body. The technique used in this charging process is called body-clothed power transmission. In this way, the user will have to charge only one device, and the other device can be charged through it.
Now, the power bank industry will surely have to reinvent, as if this technology became affordable, people are not going to buy power banks. The companies are eliminating chargers from their phones and facing the consequences for them also. Apple removed the charger from their new model and faced a lawsuit in Brazil in which the company gets defeated. Now we can assume that Apple is predicting the future of chargers as they are no more needed. The reason which Apple gives for removing chargers is that it will do less harm to the environment. Overall, we can say that this technology is great and if it became affordable, it will surely have a huge market. Currently, there are wireless chargers, fast chargers in the market, but this is something beyond. Let’s see what progress we can see in the future.
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