Saturday, September 24, 2011

Current Event #1 (Due on: 23/09/11)


Electronic Tatoo! ;)

Dr. John Rogers recently created a type of electronic with the same physical properties as skin. These electronics can be used to measure your heart rate, your body's temperature, it can sense any kind of electrical activity in your body, your breathing, brain waves, speech and many other things.

This electronic is like a microchip but it made out of a very thin sheet of silicone and it is; flexible, bendable, elastic, very thin, translucent… As oppose to a normal microchip that would be rigid, probably thicker and it would not stick to the skin in a normal way.

This “electronic skin” can be applied in the same way as a regular temporary tattoo. The best part is, it is removable and stays on for about a week or two.
It is made out of several circuits and wires that together look like a spider web.

 I think that this idea of temporary tattoo including a microchip is a good idea and could help improve our everyday life. For example, if you monitor your heart rate and you realize that something is not normal, you could send the information through a wireless device and send it to your doctor.

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Also go and see and have a look at the bottom of the article on this page:
There is a video and a recording that are both very interesting and worth looking at. 




Source: http://www.talkingscience.org/2011/08/epidermal-electronics/
Author of the original text: April Garbuz
Date published: August 25, 2011



3 comments:

  1. Intrestiong and cool why is ur blog in serbian

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  2. Thanx! I have no idea why it's in serbian! :P

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  3. This is very cool! I have never heard of this before. it is a new device for making us all safer, I suppose. I wonder what else it could do. Very good summary and reflection. I also like that you added a link at the bottom. make sure that you write who the author is and when it was written at the top of the post.

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