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    Can Your Body Be A Battery?

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    Image of ID Ron Burgundy ID Ron Burgundy
    12/02/09

    In reply to Energizer's Next Gen Zinc Air Batteries to Triple Run Time
    New battery tech doesn't necessarily get me very excited, but newer, tinier, sexier gadgets do!

    Alas, I am not a chemist and I can only look at the picture and say "ooh"
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    11/24/09

    In reply to Amazon's Kindle 2 Gets 85 Percent Battery Boost, Native PDF Reading
    What about the open format so we can borrow books from the library? Hello? Amazon?
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    Image of daftrok daftrok
    11/24/09

    In reply to Amazon's Kindle 2 Gets 85 Percent Battery Boost, Native PDF Reading
    Either it was an impressive feat of engineering, or the software was written so poorly it took six months to fix it, or what they were intending all along. They get to double dip (GEORGE!) the same product. They got a boost of sales at launch, were expecting a downturn, and now they can say 85% better battery life, the New Kindle. It's all a marketing ploy in my opinion.
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    11/24/09

    @daftrok: Yeah, that large an increase seems only possible if there were major inefficiencies to start with. At least it's still free for people who bought it earlier.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    11/24/09

    In reply to Amazon's Kindle 2 Gets 85 Percent Battery Boost, Native PDF Reading
    So I guess I'm SOL with my gen1 Kindle? I guess that's what I get for being an early adopter.
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    Image of FigNinja FigNinja
    11/24/09

    @Segador: Yep. Generally that is part of the early adopter tax. But on the bright side you got to read lots of books on a device that's a good deal more convenient than paper. I'm still happy with my gen1 Kindle. I don't really care about the PDF so much since most of my PDFs are formatted for letter/A4 and wouldn't work well on a small screen. Reflowable text works fine but then it also converts fine. Lots of readers can list PDF support as a feature. That doesn't mean it works well. I'm going to wait to upgrade until either my Kindle breaks or some great new screen tech comes out.
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    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    11/24/09

    @Segador: Are you kidding? The scores of satisfied launch 360 owners would disagree with you.
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    11/24/09

    @anexanhume: Took me a minute.
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    Image of Canoehead Canoehead
    11/24/09

    @Segador: I think the Gen1 Kindle already has superior battery life compared to the Gen2.
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    Image of aidemthgink aidemthgink
    11/16/09

    In reply to Can Your Body Be A Battery?
    LDSM
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    Lactic acid is a byproduct of muscle tissue and some bacteria, i.e. Shewanella, can convert it into electricity. Just a thought.
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    11/16/09

    @aidemthgink: That sounds like it's probably a good idea. However there will still most likely be an issue with waste products being produced by the battery itself. #bloodbatteries
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    11/16/09

    In reply to Can Your Body Be A Battery?
    Where's the Carl Sagan autotune now? Come one, we all know that anaerobic glycolysis would fill a thousand 500-page volumes via "Cosmos". Now I want to hear the autotune version, please. #bloodbatteries
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    Image of Killjoy Killjoy
    11/16/09

    In reply to Can Your Body Be A Battery?
    Okay, commenting specifically on the Usa subset: We currently run our bodies with an enormous glucose energy excess, caused by changing the balance of our diet a few millenia ago towards large amounts of refined grains. This creates, among many other things, the obesity and diabetes "pandemic."

    Installing bio-batteries that use this glucose isn't a bad idea. We already put excess energy into our systems, so we wouldn't have to adopt new diets to fuel them. Other problems could be caused, however, if their use of glucose doesn't fit into the body's normal response curves - we could also introduce a whole new set of diet-related issues. #bloodbatteries
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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/16/09

    @Killjoy: Ideally the devices would operate in the discrepancies between our natural rhythms and what we actually do to our bodies.

    Conversely, if the device were able to convert energy back into blood sugar it might be a viable alternative to coffee in the morning. #bloodbatteries
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    Image of Killjoy Killjoy
    11/16/09

    @Gann: Personally I'd install the version that can convert excess battery energy to ketones instead (or give me a choice of conversions), but either way I like the idea. And you're right about the difference between biorhythms and society's rhythms - programmed correctly, this could do double duty and plug some of the gap. #bloodbatteries
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    11/16/09

    @Killjoy: Speaking of choice of conversions, I wonder how hard it would be to make something like this that produced alcohol, or THC. #bloodbatteries
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    Image of Killjoy Killjoy
    11/16/09

    @Gann: At which point it occurs to me that we're talking about becoming The Culture from Iain M. Banks' novels, at least biologically. But yes - if we figure out how to synthesize a molecule on that level using in-body material, I doubt the process will be molecule-specific. Aside from getting high, we can have on-demand self-produced doses of vaccine or antibiotic or caffeine or vasopressin or melatonin or god this is going to be awesome. #bloodbatteries
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    Image of FriarNurgle FriarNurgle
    11/16/09

    In reply to Can Your Body Be A Battery?

    Your're gonna want a little lube to plug this in. #bloodbatteries
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    finnigan16 promoted this comment FriarNurgle was starred FriarNurgle was unstarred
    Image of finnigan16 finnigan16
    11/16/09

    @FriarNurgle: Haha, I'm imagining some kind of inductive power transfer system. I think there's already too many plugs for the human body, but maybe I'm a prude? #bloodbatteries
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/16/09

    In reply to Can Your Body Be A Battery?
    I get a strange vision of a combination IPhone and Vampire. #bloodbatteries
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    11/16/09


    @Curves: #bloodbatteries
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    11/16/09

    @Gann: Let me try that again
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/16/09

    @Gann: IDrac App. I can see that getting approved. #bloodbatteries
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    11/16/09

    @Curves: It goes without saying, that app would suck. #bloodbatteries
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    11/16/09

    @Gann: You win. ;) #bloodbatteries
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    Image of aeronmichaelangelo001 aeronmichaelangelo001
    11/16/09

    In reply to Can Your Body Be A Battery?
    So would this make America the largest power plant in the world?
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    11/16/09

    @aeronmichaelangelo001: Here, have a internetz for you. #bloodbatteries
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    11/16/09

    In reply to Can Your Body Be A Battery?
    I'm imagining the irony of having a device in your body to fight diabetes.

    It'd be a device that is powered by glucose to process glucose.... #bloodbatteries
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Can Your Body Be A Battery?
    I'm shocked that someone would think of this. #bloodbatteries
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    11/16/09

    In reply to Can Your Body Be A Battery?
    From the article "their waste products will need to be removed without allowing any harmful substances to leach out into the blood stream". That could mean that, while the metabolic waste itself may not be harmful, other components of the battery may be.

    From the limited amount I know about yeast, I don't believe they produce anything that our livers can't handle. #bloodbatteries
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    Image of newgalactic newgalactic
    11/16/09

    In reply to Can Your Body Be A Battery?
    Humans as living batteries? I don't like where this is going.

    Considering the fear/joy which resulted from a simple math equation like E=mc², we should think on this one.

    ...never mind "The Matrix", fear Exxon. #bloodbatteries
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Can Your Body Be A Battery?
    If you're using yeast to process glucose, the waste product is going to be ethanol.
    I'm pretty sure I'm not alone here, but I for one would certainly pay good money for a device that charges batteries and intoxicates at the same time. #bloodbatteries
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    11/16/09

    @negated: has star powah: But sometimes my toilet needs to be hugged. What will I ralph up? #bloodbatteries
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    11/16/09

    @Calzo: duracells #bloodbatteries
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