People will start to generate energy using their own gastric juice! A team of technologists from the Massachusetts Institute has created the first electronic tablet, a microscopic battery capable of working on secretions produced by the stomach. In the future, this device may be used to deliver drugs and power medical implants (such as a pacemaker). What else can we expect from scientists? What technologies of the future may be already tomorrow in our stomach with you?
The person himself will be able to generate energy for the built-in implants. In the future, scientists plan to get rid of dangerous batteries built into medical implants in favor of electronic tablets of the future, mini-energy generators that run on the patient's gastric juice.
The new invention of scientists opens up colossal prospects in implantology. All electronic devices implanted in a person can, in fact, work forever, without requiring replacement of batteries. Now, for example, the average lifespan of a pacemaker is only 7 years.
With a gastric energy generator, reoperation is never required to change the batteries, and any battery in the patient's body is potentially dangerous. There is always a possibility that it can depressurize and cause severe poisoning.
Using the new technology, it will be possible to implant not only eternal pacemakers into the human body, but also medical bio-robots and even smartphones. However, it will take several years before this becomes a reality. So far, scientists have been able to make only microdevices work on gastric juice that read the heart rate and measure blood pressure and temperature.
The developers were pleased with the first experiments. The temperature sensor equipped with a micro-generator effectively took readings and transmitted them wirelessly every 12 seconds. Now scientists are thinking about how to make the device work not only in the stomach, but also in the small intestine.
In the near future, scientists hope to optimize their design, reduce the size of the generator and increase its residence time inside the body.
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