“Problem: artificial heart pumps need power but running wires through the skin leads to infection. Solution: invent device to transfer power without wires.
It sounds like science fiction, but reality is not far away. Texas-based heart pump maker MicroMed Cardiovascular has this month signed a licensing deal with a supplier of wireless power technology New Zealand company TetCor, a subsidiary of Telemetry Research run by Auckland University bio-engineering specialist Simon Malpas.”
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Tim Hunter, Sunday Star Times, 13 September 2009
