Wirelessly Powering Electroceutical Devices for Pain Relief
August 26, 2014 | Terry Sharrer
Medical Chip for Power Transfer
As an alternative to large batteries which need to be replaced, as with pacemakers, Stanford engineers built an inductive powering device, small as a grain of rice, that can be implanted in the body and wirelessly recharged from the surface of the skin. Such a device might be affixed to a nerve bundle to relieve pain as an alternative to drug therapy—thus the term “electroceutical.”
Image Credit: Stanford
