Our Inevitable March to the Matrix Continues

Via Worldchanging, Japanese scientists have built a fuel cell that runs only (as in doesn’t require any additives) on blood.

The biological fuel cell uses glucose, a sugar in blood, with a non-toxic substance used to draw electrons from glucose, said the team led by Matsuhiko Nishizawa, bio-engineering professor at the graduate school of state-run Tohoku University.

“Since the electron mediator is based on Vitamin K3, which exists in human bodies, it excels in safety and could in the future generate power from blood as an implant-type fuel cell,” the group said in a statement.

Fantastic. You might as well fit me up for a bulbous pod filled with phlegm right now. We’re making it a little too easy for our future robot overlords, aren’t we?