Researchers are developing technology to make pacemakers battery-free. The advancement is based upon a piezoelectric system that converts vibrational energy — created inside the chest by each heartbeat — into electricity to power the pacemaker.
SOURCE: Batteries News — ScienceDaily – Read entire story here.
Next-gen pacemakers may be powered by unlikely source: The heart
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