Researchers from Canada have developed a device which collects energy from regular jaw movements and generates electricity. This means that one day we could recharge them smartphone just chewing on a gum.
Your battery is dying? None problem. Run to the nearest fast food, or kiosk and start chewing.
In a paper published in the issue of Smart Materials and Structures last week, Canadian scientists explain that the device can be charged with a strap that the owner wears on the chin and includes integrated electrodes. So during meals, you can charge the appliance.
The bad news, according to the journal Smart Materials and Structures, is that, during an experiment, in a small meal, the energy produced was just 10 µW. In simple words, discovery it has a long way to go until the lower jaw is fully utilized.
"Given that the average power available from chewing is about 7 mW, we still have a long way to go before we can perfect the performance of the device," Aidin Delnavaz of the Canadian Institute of Physics told Science Daily.
