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Extracting energy from the inner ear

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The endocochlear potential in a guinea pig's ear is captured and used to run a low-power radio.

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Figure 1: Commonly used biomedical devices with their power requirements (in Watts) and energy sources.

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  1. Kenneth Shepard is in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA,

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  2. Taku Ito and Andrew J. Griffith are in the Otolaryngology Branch, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, US National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, USA.,

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Shepard, K., Ito, T. & Griffith, A. Extracting energy from the inner ear. Nat Biotechnol 30, 1204–1205 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2448

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