SONY Bio Battery - Generates Electricity from Glucose : DigInfo

[AmazinglyAgnostic]

hint hint.... a mechanized mitochondria lol.

[Alecridge]

and i want to be an engineer....holy shit.

[cHiKaDiNg58]

Cola batteries... hmmmm Frank! One Piece!

[IntarwebUser]

This is sweet technology. Literally!

[WaiWu]

great now instead of eating my dinner... I can feed it to my PS3 and play some more games... neat!

but really cool idea none the less

[rubble1712]

great!! now technology will get fat, lazy and have greazy screens

[illriginalized]

i <3 you Japan! Especially SONY!!!

[r3bol]

Man using soft-drink as power source? Didn't I see this in Back to the Future?

[Wazztheweasel]

@r3bol you did .he used a banana peal to power his car.

[AyeJordaNnnnnn]

Franky the cyborg must have told them how to use cola for energy.

[truestyleoutlaw]

robots that consume organic matter?

[Zenome]

If this comes to the market, it will help obesity in America substantially.

[PurpleLotus92]

these guys are just making sugar more expensive. =.="

[Woshmistro]

A random thought came into my head where I call my laptop for dinner and I put food in a bowl, then the laptop comes over and eats the food by opening and closing its lid

[Terr0c1ty]

I don't want to have to share my cake/chocolate/dinner with my computer!

however.. this means hardcore gamers are going to become anorexic

[theclockmace]

@Terr0c1ty better than being obese.

[Terr0c1ty]

@theclockmace na man.

[theclockmace]

@Terr0c1ty ya man. 

[Terr0c1ty]

@theclockmace na man.

[icemaul]

Oh my god, it's the matrix.

[bmw2go11]

with this technology being released in the near future, and the insanely thin display's Sony makes (will continue to get thinner). It's a matter of time until Sony will re-invent the x series; fully touch-screen, one solid piece, never-ending battery (if you're carrying around a small drink), and all under 2 grand.

SONY FTW!!!

[cplai]

Does SONY have plans to make these batteries implantable? For example, future pace maker may not need external power, when electricity is drawn from the patient's blood sugar. Just drink a soda to replenish the "energy". People who needs to lose weight can implant a device to convert blood sugars into CO2 and H2O.

[charleshoskinson]

@cplai that's actually the idea

[cplai]

@charleshoskinson If they only focus on how to improve the efficiency of the power generation, then they may delay the roll out of the product. However, an very inefficient early design has its own applications too. Example, an implanted device can consume the calories in obese people, or to lower blood sugar level for diabetic patients. The remaining problem is pick the proper load for the electricity. Perhaps an outlet to charge your iPod and other gadgets or a bionic eye for TV watching.

[sk8terkid44]

im doing this for my science project

[bret354]

@sk8terkid44 let us know how you do!

[ShriveledTadpole]

now the androids can eat food too once we try to shut off the power grid to stop them from recharging. awesome stuff. take out your EMP's everyone.

[abkleo]

96 friggin alkaline batteries... 1 bowl of rice.. HMMmm..

we'll be competing with robots for rice in future.. XD

[samaeloffated]

Those 96 batteries taste delicious don't they? wait until I go back for seconds thirds and even elenvesies!

[NicolXIX]

OK so cars are already running on ethanol (E85) made from sugar and now mobile phones and laptops, what's next? Streetlights and subways running on sugar powerplants?

Let's relocate a south american nation and harvest sugar for the masses.

Then coke and candy and donuts and what not will become dirt cheap too, the future is looking bright :)

[madlutist]

Well, ethanol is not the greatest idea, really. Since it takes energy to break down the vegetable matter to get ethanol, you have to get that energy from somewhere else. So ultimately, you'll eventually resort back to fossil fuels.

But the glucose thing is the one I've been waiting for ever since I learned about biological energy in biology... Mimicking biological processes is about the most efficient energy conversion process possible, so I'm glad we're figuring out how to use it.

[Chousakan]

ITS MY FOOD!!! ;_;

Bloody machines...

[thomasamagne]

Amazing... So i can run my laptop on batteries for an infinite amount of time...As long as i keep feeding it donuts

[ndjarnag]

yeah, but that's a waste of donuts :)

[BigYellowNinja]

lol

[charleshoskinson]

@thomasamagne we'll call it the coptop

[Peopleunit]

@thomasamagne - now all I need is a jelly bean farm.

[VikInOz]

Or perhaps... I could sit in front of the TV drinking beer, and a battery inplanted in my gut could convert the energy from the beer to electricity to power my Sony OLED TV, thus I loose weight while drinking beer and watching TV. How cool would that be.

[jeffsadowski]

maybe a use in pace makers? people can charge it by drinking.

[VikInOz]

hmmm pacemakers? Perhaps it could you just convert the glucose that is in the bloodstream into the electricity.

[randomnum9327]

that means they would be like bender from futurerama haha

[snarper]

This is incredible! I hope this becomes an available technology soon!

[Tsanalretentive]

Now if only that could be adapted to cars so they can run on pepsi...

[bluesocarrot]

But pepsi has less energy in it than petrol. Glucose is quite a lot like petroleum, almost the same structure to the molecule. By using the less efficient glucose that we mainly get from plants, we are doing almost exactly the same thing as using ethanol in our cars.

[Tsanalretentive]

Yeah, you're right...

Wish the auto industry would find an alternate fuel source though...might help them with the recession.

[501th]

cool

[jasonlittlejohn89]

one bowl of rice equals 96 batteries - WOW get ready for rice prices to explode... I'm stocking up.. But seriously this is great.

[kevon2000]

wow.. this is cutting edge

[winterstellar]

Awesome! 5 stars for SONY! : )

[babesamhsu]

this is so coool! You'll never have to worry about running out of battery. Cuz you can feed your battery with what you drink or eat.

[willsmith66367]

that is the best idea since cars