History Main / LivingBattery

* There are already quite a few types of devices that can be powered by human movement, body heat etc. but these tend to be novelties that are much simpler in function than counterparts with conventional power sources.

* ''Anime/{{Iczer}}: In ''Iczer-One'', OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Nagisa is recruited by Iczer-1 to be her partner and help power her HumongousMecha, Iczer Robo. The risks of this are shown in the sequel series, ''Iczer-3'', where Iczer-3's inexperience causes her to nearly get Nagisa killed because of this. Well known in the early western anime fandom through a fan parody music video called "Nagisa Bonita" (to the tune of "La Isla Bonita" by Music/{{Madonna}}), where Iczer-1 repeatedly asks Nagisa to "be my battery".

* In the 1968 French novel ''The Ice People'' (''La Nuit de Temps'') by Rene Barjavel, the "mange-machine" (= eating-device, or "eat machine" in the English translation) is an organic device used by an ancient civilization. It creates food, pills (and FoodPills) and drugs from nothing (working on the same principle as all their machines), and the ancient people cannot eat things that don't come from this device. They're not used anymore, physically and psychologically, to normal food, and the device is crucial to their life. The scientists who revive the [[HumanPopsicle young frozen woman]] they find in what's left of the ancient city almost lose her because she can't eat modern food.