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Re: wind-up wearables

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> Check out the Plutonium powered pacemakers of the 1950's.  The actual

Hmm.. seems to me I've read about these when I was a kid in school.
Indeed interesting.

> "battery life" is 82 years (yes, I've seriously looked into these
> things for the MIT project - no, not feasible).  They were actually

I'll take 82 years as opposed to 6000 years.. but why isnt it feasible?
Are we talking only a minute bit of current being generated here? What
was the method of generating the current, thermocouple interface?

> tested to hold up against small arms fire in case someone got shot in
> a supermarket robbery.  You can still find people who have these in

Good that somebody thought about this, but still... a little before it's
time?

> their chest.

Interesting.. unfortunately, nobody I know has a pacemaker that they can
lend me ;)

Thanks for the info...
-Mike :)+<

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