The urine of an insect will be the inspiration for smart watches

Technology does not stop surprising humanity when it comes to updating their systems. In this era, smart watches have taken over digital commerce, becoming one of the most common and preferred devices by people.

To continue with the transformation and progress, in recent months a researcher specialized in biomolecular engineering has closely studied the way in which an insect urinates to transfer this method to technological devices to benefit water resistance.

Homalodisca vitripennis

The magazine Nature published an article in which it ensures that Saad Bhamla, a professor at Georgia Tech University, indicated that the inspiration for the insect was generated when he was in his garden and began to observe how the homalodisca vitripennis urinates, an insect native to the north of Mexico and that was introduced in California, United States.

“The closer I got, the more I realized that I was doing something interesting,” the specialist told The Verge when he caught the insect and recorded it several times in slow motion to detail its movements.

These insects, with an approximate size of 12 millimeters in length, with transparent wings with exposed reddish veins, expel round drops in their urine that they throw at great speed. The specialists observed that the bug has an anal orifice that makes a kind of blinking, key to the unique way in which it urinates. According to Bhamla, superdrive allows an elastic object to fly at speeds faster than the thing that launched it. Additionally, timing between the soft item and its catapult gives the item a boost of energy.

Regarding the manufacture of smartwatches, the expert concluded that the way in which the insect urinates would help to improve the water expulsion systems, a function that Apple Watch already has, for example, but that could be optimized and also used to improve the battery autonomy.