Obscure Research Blog November Archive

Powering your Implants

When you run a web site like Unusual Research, you attract many unusual people. One recurring subject is "Implants", usually implanted in the body of a person without their consent by the Government or Extraterrestrials. Perhaps some of those cases are true, perhaps not, but I'll leave that to you to decide.

The question I have asked for years is how these body implants are being powered (at least the terrestrial ones), to which no one could ever give me a good answer. Now a good answer may be found in the Implantgen Project, using hardware from Zarlink Seminconductor.

"Using pressure responsive balloons within the right atrium and ventricle, advantage is taken of the pressures generated in the heart during the cardiac cycle to drive a reciprocating linear generator. In normal function, the atrium contracts first, compressing the atrial balloon and driving the generator mechanism in one direction; then the ventricle contracts, compressing the ventricle balloon and driving the mechanism back to its ‘starting’ position. The reciprocating movement of the mechanism generates the electricity used to power implanted devices."