Imagine a bandage-like strip on your skin quietly turning humidity, breath and body heat into electricity for your devices. In a new study in the journal Wearable Electronics, a team led by researchers at Nanjing University reports a flexible evaporation-induced generator that uses a carefully engineered “water-ion-temperature” gradient to reach a peak power density of ... Read more The post When Water Becomes A Battery: Flexible Skin Patch Pulls Power From Thin Air appeared first on SciChi.

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This is pretty bad.

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