What powers this aritificial heart?

[DVad3r]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13338

What is the source of it's power that it pumps for a long time? Not mentioned in article, Im curious...

 

[Capt Caveman]

nvm

 

[bignateyk]

It has an external 5 hour battery pack.

 

[Crono]

Mini arc reactor.

Actually, an external battery pack.

 

[DVad3r]

External battery pack huh? And that is connected to the heart how?

Arc reactor is bad ass, Mmmm

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: DVad3r
External battery pack huh? And that is connected to the heart how?

Arc reactor is bad ass, Mmmm

It's connected with wires. How else would it be connected?

(Yes, I realize my answer is probably wrong ... just being a smartass ... )

 

[Crono]

I don't know about the EADS one, but Abiomed one uses current induction to charge an internal battery. The internal battery of the EADS one gives 5 hours of usage before needing to be charged.

"When the batteries run low, they can be recharged from a portable external pack that passes energy through the patient's skin by a current induction method."

 

[DVad3r]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn

Originally posted by: DVad3r
External battery pack huh? And that is connected to the heart how?

Arc reactor is bad ass, Mmmm

It's connected with wires. How else would it be connected?

how the fuck do I know, I think it's odd for wires to be sticking out of someone connected to a battery pack. Crono's answer seems a bit more logical.

 

[Vegitto]

Couldn't they at least win some power out of the circulatory system?

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: DVad3r

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn

Originally posted by: DVad3r
External battery pack huh? And that is connected to the heart how?

Arc reactor is bad ass, Mmmm

It's connected with wires. How else would it be connected?

how the fuck do I know, I think it's odd for wires to be sticking out of someone connected to a battery pack. Crono's answer seems a bit more logical.

Guess I owe you an apology.
Sorry DVad3r. My post was dickish and incorrect.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: Vegitto
Couldn't they at least win some power out of the circulatory system?

Not yet. That would be ideal, but the technology doesn't exist (or it's not mature) for an artificial heart to draw energy from the molecules (sugar, ATP) that the actual heart uses.

 

[SagaLore]

This heart is not kosher.

 

[Ruptga]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
This heart is not kosher.

I noticed that too, wouldn't the inclusion of pig parts mean people that get this still have to take anti-rejection drugs

 

[PingSpike]

Hopefully beer and kielbasa, because that didn't work so well with my regular one.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Unbridled venemous rage. It's the same thing that powers Rush Limbaugh.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

That's a damn big heart. Oh, and I thought this thread was going to be about Iron Man.

 

[DVad3r]

I wonder how many muslim people will reject this heart because it's partly pork...Mmmm

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Pig parts... NO ATRIFICIAL HEARTS FOR TERRORISTS!

I crack me up...