Scientist Developed a Device that allow Heartbeat to Power Pacemaker

Scientists had developed a new device that uses energy from a beating heart to power a pace-maker, which can eradicate the need for surgeries to replace the depleted batteries.

The experimental device converts energy from a beating heart to provide enough electricity to make a pacemaker running.

After conducting test it was suggested that the device could produce 10 times the amount of energy needed.

The researchers at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor tested an energy-harvesting device that uses piezoelectricity –electrical charge generated from motion. The approach is a challenging technological solution for pacemakers, because they require only small amounts of power to operate.

Pacemakers device is replaced every five to seven years when their batteries run out which is quite costly and inconvenient.

With the invention of such new technology many patient are spared with many operation which are conducted in order to transplant new batteries.