Battery tech goes super miniature - and tear powered
Tech Life
BBC
4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Associate Professor Lee Seok Woo, from NTU, in Singapore, tells us how a Tom Cruise film inspired him to create a battery, powered by tears, that's so small it could be fitted to a contact lens. Ben Derico reports from San Francisco on why Chatbot detectors are mistakenly accusing people for whom English is a second language of cheating in exams. Analyst Ben Wood, from CCS Insight, brings us up to speed on Apple's latest product plans. And journalist Jack Thompson guides us through the farming revolution in Senegal, being powered by WhatsApp voicenotes.
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| 1:01.0 | Hi, I'm Zoe Kleinman and this is TechLife, your guides to the ideas, innovations and people reshaping our world. |
| 1:09.0 | This week we'll tell you about an amazing new development in battery technology and how it was inspired by a Tom Cruise movie. |
| 1:11.2 | If English isn't your first language, |
| 1:14.2 | we've got a report about how some AI-powered products might be treating you unfairly. |
| 1:16.4 | We'll also look ahead to the launch of the iPhone 15 |
| 1:19.2 | and why the latest essential tool for farmers in Senegal |
| 1:22.9 | is the WhatsApp voice note. |
| 1:41.9 | Music is the WhatsApp voice note. We live in a battery-powered world. |
| 1:45.2 | Some of them are enormous, like the huge slams that are powering the transition to electric vehicles. |
| 1:51.1 | The lightest Tesla car battery, for example, weighs a whopping 450 kilos. |
| 1:57.2 | But scientists are also doing amazing things at the other end of the size spectrum, |
| 2:02.5 | including a team at Nan Yang Technological University in Singapore, |
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