Finger sweat can charge your devices

"Unlike other sweat-powered wearables, this one requires no exercise, no physical input from the wearer in order to be useful," said co-first author Lu Yin, a nanoengineering Ph.D. student at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Fingertips include more than 1,000 sweat glands and...

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Published inISE ; Industrial and Systems Engineering at Work Vol. 53; no. 10; p. 14
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Norcross Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) 01.10.2021
Subjects
Body parts
Electricity
Energy
Engineering schools
Nanoengineering
Perspiration
Sweat
Wearable computers
Wristwatches
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Summary:"Unlike other sweat-powered wearables, this one requires no exercise, no physical input from the wearer in order to be useful," said co-first author Lu Yin, a nanoengineering Ph.D. student at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Fingertips include more than 1,000 sweat glands and can produce 100 to 1,000 times more perspiration than other body parts. Because fingers are constantly exposed to air, the sweat evaporates before it is noticed, Yin said. In testing, researchers were able to collect almost 400 millijoules of energy, enough to power a wristwatch for 24 hours, from a subject wearing the device on one finger while sleeping and doing sedentary activities.
ISSN:2471-9579