Australian man successfully receives titanium heart after 6-hour operation
www.abc.net.au
A New South Wales man with heart failure lived with the artificial heart for over 100 days while waiting to be matched with a heart donor.

In short:

A mechanical heart has been implanted in a New South Wales man who was experiencing severe heart failure.

He has become the first person in the world to be discharged from hospital with the titanium heart.

What’s next?

Doctors say the invention will likely be an alternative for donor heart transplants in the future.

    • Psythik@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      I hope that it has some sort of self-charging mechanism that is entirely human-powered. You would think that they’d design it that way.

      But even then, batteries and capacitors eventually go bad. So they’ll still have to be replaced every few years.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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        42 minutes ago

        I don’t imagine you get enough power from a gyro to be worth the added complexity. Plus of course if you never stopped working you would need an alternate way to charge it which means you still need an external power supply even if only for emergencies.