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Eyeball Energy
Self-charging contact lenses coming to a cyborg near you. Researchers developed a way to harvest energy from blinking and light.
Flexible solar cell captures real and artificial light
Tear-powered device converts electrolytes into energy
Special super-capacitor provides stable power
Smart contact lenses offer potential health benefits such as monitoring and drug delivery. Developing those features will be challenging due to eye-sensitivity, but now we know how to power them. Blink twice for supercharging.
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With these new smart contacts, if you need a quick recharge, just blink twice. It's like Morse code for 'I need more battery life.
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