While test kits for certain conditions like pregnancy do not require power for diagnosis, tests for other diseases like diabetes need a current to generate results.
Existing diagnostic kits use conventional batteries as a power source, and are not portable.
As it is, IBN researchers have solved the puzzle by finding a solution in none other than the very source for diagnosis — the urine sample.
It will soon roll out the world’s first urine-activated paper battery — a multi-layer device measuring 60mm by 30mm with a thickness of just 1mm — for use in test kits running biochip devices.
With just one drop of urine placed on the paper battery, enough electricity will be generated to power the biochip device that can analyse the urine sample for disease biomarkers, or substances in the blood that can indicate the presence of certain diseases.
I can see this being developed into a kit to be carried in police cars — for instant drug and alcohol testing.
I’ll be in good shape financially if pee can fuel my car.
OK. How come much of what’s in the urine sample looks like the same stuff that’s in fertilizer, yet when you pee on the grass it dies? I’m confused.
“I can see this being developed into a kit to be carried in police cars — for instant drug and alcohol testing.”
Yeah, right.
I can just see a drunk pissing all over some cop.
Instant concussion and an assault charge.
But we could get free power by pasting this stuff all over
the walls and sidewalks of our winovilles – could be big.
Tijuana, for example, could power the whole city that way.
Or maybe a bunch of guys could piss into a campfire to get it started, rather than to put it out.
Could lead to confusion.
Stick a sheet on the butt of the slowpoke ahead of you in line and give him a few good squirts.
Possibilities are endless.
Of course, the ladies might object.