Some startups have already started to develop prototypes of devices integrated into our bodies that are capable of feeding on our energy to be fully autonomous or even power wearables.
At present, wearables have undergone rapid development. Personalized devices have emerged, such as smartwatches, smart glasses or activity bracelets that were born to provide comfort as well as technology and great functionality to the human being.
To contextualize, the English term wearable could be literally translated as “wearable” or “wearable”, and refers to those technological devices that we carry with us regularly and with which we constantly interact.
Well, these have been developed at the same time as other innovations in fields such as flexible electronic technology , big data and artificial intelligence, which little by little have made it possible to add numerous improvements to wearables such as frequency monitoring. cardiac or IoT.
For them, power supply is a major hurdle and batteries are now the standard power source for electronic devices . However, the characteristics of these, the limited life of the batteries and the possible problems of environmental contamination are great handicaps that are currently trying to be overcome .
Therefore, many efforts have been made to explore new environmentally friendly and renewable energy sources to power electronic devices, and self-powered technology offers a solution for sustainable power supply of wearables.
Self-powered technology means the device can maintain its own operation by drawing energy from the environment without the need for an external power supply. Well, researchers have discovered that the human body itself can be a perfect source of energy for these.
