We detect such currents in muscles, nerves, secretory glands, and
electric organs of fish as well as in plant tissue -LRB-...) It seems likely that all these currents have a similar, if not the same basis, and that their strength and potency depends on the structural conditions and chemical composition of the cells making up each organ.»
But he thinks that tweaking the hydrogel setup to more closely imitate a real
eel electric organ — like by printing thinner gels — could give these energy sources more oomph.
Electric Eel - Inspired Device Reaches 110 Volts: This photo depicts the printed, high voltage implementation of the
artificial electric organ.
The electric eel generates large electric currents by way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc - shaped, electricity - producing cells packed into a
specialized electric organ.
No sense of hurry or time here; no notes, hymnbooks, worship manuals or
electric organs.
This new type of power source is modeled after rows of cells called electrocytes in
the electric organ that runs along an electric eel's body.
Because the cells are oriented inside
the electric organ like a series of batteries piled into a flashlight, the current generated by an activated cell «shocks» any inactive neighbor into action, setting off an avalanche of activation that runs its course in just two milliseconds or so.
The nervous system does this through a command nucleus that decides when
the electric organ will fire.
The weak pulses travel outward through the water then back to
the electric organ through thousands of conductive pores covering the fish's body.
Several groups of fish have evolved the capacity to generate electrical pulses from specialised «
electric organs», derived from either muscle tissue or nerve tissue.
For source material Scheller first obtained vesicles from
the electric organ of the marine ray Torpedo, then switched to rat brain vesicles — the same material used by Südhof.
So, to wayfind, electric eels, true to their name, rely on
their electric organs.
Given a Goblin - rific use of
electric organ, voices and synth beats, «Belle» is even more hardcore Giallo than «Maniac» often playing like the soundtrack of a great Dario Argento movie that never was.
Accompanying these pieces will be «Yamaha» (2010 - 12), a sculpture in which
an electric organ is programmed via computer and rigged with wooden hammers to play random notes for random durations.