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August 23, 2007

Sony's new sugar-powered battery — sweet

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Above, a woman holding Sony's new glucose-operated battery in her right hand and a MP3 player powered by it in the other.

Sony successfully figured out how to generate power out of carbohydrates by breaking down enzymes that release active energy, which then can power small electronic devices.

Watch a video demo — warning, gaijin, it's in Japanese — here.

[via tokyomango]

August 23, 2007 at 03:01 PM | Permalink


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