The "Steampunk" heart
Weighing in at 650g, this artificial heart created by a medical engineering team at Bivacor uses magnetic levitation to spin a disc at extremely fast speeds to pump blood to the body and return oxygen-depleted blood to the lungs.
It also doesn’t attempt to mimic the human heart like its 3D printed counterparts. Instead, it rather uses a magnetically levitating centrifugal pump — no valves, no ventricles — that supplies a continuous stream of blood. Oddly enough, that means the patient would technically have no pulse.
Read the full writeup on the Bivacor "Steampunk" Heart at Futurism.com
For an in-depth technical walkthrough check out this piece by IEEE Spectrum
















