Goodbye to conventional batteries: our body will power wearables thanks to implanted chips

The human being will be able to give energy to the wearables, electronic devices to monitor our day to day. It will be the end of conventional batteries, at least for these devices.

the german company celtro is developing wearables with energy from biological cells! in order to measure our signals.

At present there is no autonomously sustainable medical electronics. There Celtro focuses to offer an alternative.

“Current energy supply technology limits the useful life of implantable electronic devices.” indicates the German company.

“requires secondary replacement surgery with associated costs and risks and restricts advanced monitoring functionalities of biological signals to guide patient management and digital health.

Celtro’s approach for our body to power wearables

There are four key points for the development of Celtro’s technology:

• Intelligent semiconductor implants, chips, for medical observation and actuation in the nanowatt range.
• Harvesting energy and electrical stimulation interacting directly with cells.
• The use of these biological cells to energize the function.
• And a wireless reading interface and writing for the device.

Celtro works on microneedle arrays to harvest small amounts of energy from hundreds of thousands of cells, according to the portal specialized in technology Wired.

Your first product is an autonomous pacemaker that works with muscle contractions.

“A muscle contraction, like that of the heart, starts at one point and then spreads through the entire heart muscle,” he says. Gerd Teepe, Celtic CEO. “Our idea is to collect energy at multiple points to use this avalanche effect.”

Founded in 2019, Celtro raised funds in 2021 for in-lab proof-of-concept studies. Soon we will know more about the evolution of his work.