A file photo of Junnishida of Tsukuba University of Japan showing his creation NEUROHack, a wearable device that allows wearers to share their kinesthesia, the awareness of the position and movement of the parts of the body by means of electrical signals sent out by nerves in the contraction of muscles, during a design competition showcase of wearable technology at the Augmented Human International Conference in Singapore on March 10, 2015. — Reuters
TBILISI: In a move that will give chills to fans of the dystopian movie The Matrix, scientists have developed a wearable device that could use the human body to replace batteries.
Echoing world-domineering robots’ use of enslaved humans in the 1999 cyberpunk movie, US researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have created an environmentally-friendly gadget that harvests body heat and converts it into energy.
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