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Research team uses the human body to power wearables — addresses major obstacle of conventional batteries (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

The article writer's didn't even read the paper they are reporting...

This is power-over-skin. Ie: power transmitted from one device to another via human skin. It's not harvesting or generating energy from the human body.

The research paper, published by Andy Kong, Daehwa Kim, and Chris Harrison from Carnegie Mellon University, notes that the human body is particularly efficient at generating 40 MHz RF energy.

No. It doesn't. At all....

Page 1 of the research paper PDF:

We call our technique Power-over-Skin Prior work has found that the human body is particularly efficient at conducting 40 MHz RF, while largely confining transmitted power to the body