Masayo Endo, an employee for Japanese electronics giant Sony, displays a new bio battery, including three cubic cells that generate enough electricity to drive a Walkman digital music player, at the International Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Expo in Tokyo on February 25, 2009 while an electric fan (bottom), powered by a bio battery cell whose energy source is a soft drink, winds. Sony has developed a passive type bio battery system of breaking down sugar to generate the world's highest level electric power of 70mW from a cell as an eco-friendly energy. Sony exhibited various eco-friendly power sources, including fuel cell batteries and bio batteries at the exhibition. Getty Images logo Getty Images 8 months ago

Masayo Endo, an employee for Japanese electronics giant Sony, displays a new bio battery, including three cubic cells that generate enough electricity to drive a Walkman digital music player, at the International Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Expo in Tokyo on February 25, 2009 while an electric fan (bottom), powered by a bio battery cell whose energy source is a soft drink, winds. Sony has developed a passive type bio battery system of breaking down sugar to generate the world's highest level electric power of 70mW from a cell as an eco-friendly energy. Sony exhibited various eco-friendly power sources, including fuel cell batteries and bio batteries at the exhibition.