Turn your skin into a screen

26 November 2009

Turn your skin into a screen

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are working on tiny, implantable devices that can carry LEDs and that could herald a time when we could have tattoos that can move and turn your skin into a screen.

The silicon-LED chips are mounted onto silk and implanted into your skin. The silk eventually dissolves and the device can move elastically through the body.

Currently these silk-silicon-LED devices are being used within the medical community to function as blood-sugar sensors and neurodevices for example, to control prosthetics.

Philips has ideas about how to use the technology - creating tattoos that change according to levels of arousal. Saucy:

Posted by Cream Editorial at 10:00:28 in Right Brain: creativity, innovation, ideas

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