Electricity from Skin Can Power Smartwatch

Electricity from Skin Can Power Smartwatch

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Chimera Embryos, Voice-Profiling Problems, Stressed into Middle Age

Episode: Chimera Embryos, Voice-Profiling Problems, Stressed into Middle Age

  • Dec 1, 2021 9:00 pm
  • 17:02 mins

There’s a lot of good info that a fitness tracker or smartwatch could gather about your health if you wore it while you sleep. But that’s when you have to take it off and charge the battery. But what if your wrist was the charging dock for your watch since skin can conduct electricity? Then you’d never have to take it off. Jeremy Gummeson is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst working on this concept. (Segment produced by Abby Haralson)