Skin Electricity
  • Jul 27, 2021 8:00 pm
  • 16:27 mins

Here’s a wild idea: human skin conducts electricity, so what if your wrist could serve as a charging dock for your smartwatch? Then you’d never have to take it off. Could this actually work? Could it hurt? Jeremy Gummeson, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, explores the concept. (Segment produced by Abby Haralson)