How Cell Phone Batteries Can Help Save Lives
1,616 views · Published 16 February 2012 · 2:48 · Indexed 25 September 2026
Channel: Boston University · 2012 · Education
There are places where thousands of children won't live to the age of five. There are places where thousands of cell phone batteries are thrown away every day. And there are scientists who, by asking the right questions, found a life-saving link between the two. Reusing discarded cell phone batteries, we created affordable and effective solar-powered pulse oximeters for early detection of pneumonia. It's looking at challenges in new ways like this that has made Boston University one of today's leading centers of knowledge. And why thinking differently about our world begins with BU.
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