Applying an electric current and getting a muscle to jump is easy. (Alessandro Volta jolted a frog's legs 218 years ago.) Peckham is harvesting the body's own electrical signals to control muscles that have been cut off from the nervous system, a process called functional electrical stimulation, or FES. Peckham runs a group called the Cleveland FES Center, a collaboration among Case Western Reserve and two Cleveland hospitals.
What you need is the scale that not only weighs you, it uses bio-electrical impedance to measure your body fat.
You see, each person's body provides a different amount of opposition to electrical current, so bioimpedance can be a unique biometric identifier.
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However, diseases that result in damage to the myelin, including MS, leave the nerves exposed and electrical signals struggle to travel round the body.
An imperceptible electrical charge ran from the meter through his body.
The wide-body, twin-engine jet relies on a complex network of electrical systems rather than traditional pneumatic systems.
However, a paper to be presented at a security conference held under the auspices of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a New York-based professional body, in May, sheds some light.
The brain uses electrical current to communicate within itself and with other parts of the body.
Just like electrical wires, nerves have insulation - but instead of plastic, the body uses myelin.
In the garments, body temperature is monitored through a thin-film transistor, while respiration is gauged using electrical resistance, but both technologies employ the pentacene as a sensing layer.
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If this area is overstimulated during the electrical brainstorm that is an epileptic fit, the consequence is an out-of-body experience.
Axons are connections that carry electrical impulses, or messages, from the neurons in the brain to the rest of the body.
At Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, electrical engineering professor Dong Ha and his team are in the early stages of studying how to employ body heat to power a circuit.
Indian Head, however, finding that the manufacturer of metal electrical conduit may have violated antitrust laws by recruiting hundreds of allies to pack a standard-setting body that banned plastic conduit from fire codes.
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