Now we need edible electronics and webcams, so you can eat a webcam - make photos inside, send them out of body - and... digest it...
We have edible, but not digestible wireless cameras already. Prepare for a slightly different noise when using the bathroom in the next few days/hours though.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/capsule-endoscop...
Re:Researchers craft a fully edible battery
by akiselev on Thursday May 11, 2023 @12:00PM
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That’s genius. Now I want to get one just out of curiosity. Looking at the cost though, I think I’m going to have to pass this one
Re:Researchers craft a fully edible battery
by tpoacher on Thursday May 11, 2023 @01:02PM
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... just to clarify, when you say pass ...
Re:Researchers craft a fully edible battery
by akiselev on Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:57PM
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I chose my words carefully ;-)
Kind of already a thing although you have to pass this:
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/tests-and-scan...
Re:Researchers craft a fully edible battery
by themanmaran on Thursday May 11, 2023 @09:56AM
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Another high value use might be long term surgical instruments that are meant to be left in the body for several weeks before degrading harmlessly. Imagine something like dissolving stitches.
Re:Researchers craft a fully edible battery
by LoganDark on Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:36PM
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Don't dissolving stitches already exist[0]?
> Absorbable sutures, also known as dissolvable stitches, are sutures that can naturally dissolve and be absorbed by the body as a wound heals.
[0]: https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-to-know-absorbable-...
Yes. Now imagine e.g. dissolving pace makers or whatnot.
Re:Researchers craft a fully edible battery
by LoganDark on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:30AM
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I wonder what use that would have—maybe healing after heart surgery? Using a pacemaker as a crutch until your heart can beat on its own again?
a pacemaker is admittedly a poor example, but it's also just that: an example. I'm sure there's hosts of medical devices that would benefit from dissolving. Perhaps even devices that are infeasible currently because they don't dissolve.
Here and I was going to suggest they add a graham cracker crust.
Re:Researchers craft a fully edible battery
by MrGilbert on Thursday May 11, 2023 @10:55AM
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> "Please don't buy our batteries for eating, eat a banana or something"
So much potential, which will be left unused...
"We don't recommend that you buy our batteries solemnly for the purpose of eating, but we won't judge you either."
"We don't recommend that you buy our batteries solemnly for the purpose of eating, but if you want to take a bite, the D-Cells are chocolate flavored."
> So much potential, which will be left unused...
Potential as in electric potential? :)
Re:Researchers craft a fully edible battery
by MrGilbert on Thursday May 11, 2023 @11:33AM
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Oh hell... I cannot believe I missed that pun... :D
I associate this style with soulless marketing campaigns. Thanks, marketing, for destroying language for me.
Re:Researchers craft a fully edible battery
by MrGilbert on Thursday May 11, 2023 @11:34AM
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That was my intention - glad it worked!
Re:Researchers craft a fully edible battery
by xutopia on Thursday May 11, 2023 @10:55AM
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Or just coat the batteries in disgusting taste so kids don't put them in their mouth repeatedly.
I also wanted to highlight this hilarious phrase in the article:
> While all of these components are nontoxic and edible, the researchers clarify that a user is not supposed to eat the battery on purpose, which would obviate the whole point of making it rechargeable.
"Please don't buy our batteries for eating, eat a banana or something"