Naked Science Forum
Non Life Sciences => Technology => Topic started by: scientizscht on 21/09/2018 11:14:30
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Hi!
Are we able to make implants that they harvest energy from the body or that they are in any other way sustainable to work without having to replace batteries etc?
Thanks
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I will never extract a milliwatt from my body using an implant
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I will never extract a milliwatt from my body using an implant
Why?
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I will never extract a milliwatt from my body using an implant
Why?
For the same reason that I don't like injections
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I don't like injections
Do you think that many people do like them?
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I will never extract a milliwatt from my body using an implant
Why?
For the same reason that I don't like injections
Are you vaccine denier?
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The problem with any implant is the fact that humans live a long time, change shape, adapt to exercise and diet, and repair themselves. Even passive implants have problems: bones weaken if they are not stressed, so several hip replacements have worked loose because they unloaded the femur, which gradually softened.
Longevity raises an interesting ethical problem Early cochlear implants used four electrodes and a fairly crude coding system compared with modern 16 or more electrode units. AFAIK no complex electronic device has ever been manufactured or stocked in its original form for 70 years (OK, you can still buy vacuum tubes designed in 1940, but they aren't used for digital signal processing). So if we implant a profoundly deaf small child (the procedure is much more effective if done before the age of 5) we have recruited him to the hearing world and effectively excluded him from the deaf community, so he won't become proficient in signing and lipreading. But at some point we will be unable to support the implant: replacement is more complicated and risky than the initial surgery, and rehabilitation can be distressing or even fail completely because the new unit "sounds" nothing like the old one. So with the best of intentions, we are condemning our patient to an unpredictable and major lifechanging event in mid-career, mid-family, peak expectation. If we could find some way of replicating the function with an external device we could instead smoothly upgrade the software and hardware and reprogram the brain incrementally as new versions arose.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator
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I will never extract a milliwatt from my body using an implant
But maybe you are already extracting microWatts with external devices like a self-winding watch, a pedometer, a fitness monitor or smartphone accelerometer?
And if you have ever used a sleeping bag, you have extracted tens of Watts from your sleeping body - for your own comfort!
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I will never extract a milliwatt from my body using an implant
But maybe you are already extracting microWatts with external devices like a self-winding watch, a pedometer, a fitness monitor or smartphone accelerometer?
And if you have ever used a sleeping bag, you have extracted tens of Watts from your sleeping body - for your own comfort!
Well said.
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I will never extract a milliwatt from my body using an implant
But maybe you are already extracting microWatts with external devices like a self-winding watch, a pedometer, a fitness monitor or smartphone accelerometer?
And if you have ever used a sleeping bag, you have extracted tens of Watts from your sleeping body - for your own comfort!
.......And several watts from riding a bicycle .But that does not involve a risky and unpleasant process of putting implants inside one's body.
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I will never extract a milliwatt from my body using an implant
But maybe you are already extracting microWatts with external devices like a self-winding watch, a pedometer, a fitness monitor or smartphone accelerometer?
And if you have ever used a sleeping bag, you have extracted tens of Watts from your sleeping body - for your own comfort!
.......And several watts from riding a bicycle .But that does not involve a risky and unpleasant process of putting implants inside one's body.
You already have earrings.
And if you are asked to put implants it would be to save your life.
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I will never extract a milliwatt from my body using an implant
But maybe you are already extracting microWatts with external devices like a self-winding watch, a pedometer, a fitness monitor or smartphone accelerometer?
And if you have ever used a sleeping bag, you have extracted tens of Watts from your sleeping body - for your own comfort!
.......And several watts from riding a bicycle .But that does not involve a risky and unpleasant process of putting implants inside one's body.
You already have earrings.
And if you are asked to put implants it would be to save your life.
Earrings have permanent holes in the ear and doesn't need to make new hole each time.
If implants are for emergency reasons and to save my life then it is OK.
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.......And several watts from riding a bicycle .But that does not involve a risky and unpleasant process of putting implants inside one's body.
Could you point out where, in this thread, anyone said that people would do this for kicks and giggles?
As I said,
I don't like injections
Do you think that many people do like them?
You started off by saying this
I will never extract a milliwatt from my body using an implant
Have you accepted that you were being silly when you said that?
Especially now that you say this ... then it is OK.
If so, perhaps you should learn not to judge things before you understand them