Temporary tattoos fitted with electronics make flexible, ultrathin sensors

Posted by abraham on Thursday August 11, 2011 @10:55PM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/08/temporary-tattoo-electronics-flexible-ultrathin-measurement-devices.ars

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Re:Temporary tattoos fitted with electronics make flexible, ... by epochwolf on Friday August 12, 2011 @12:11AM (#2875956)

I think it's time to bring up the Mark of the Beast. Nothing like a good moral panic get the blood flowing.

Panics aside, this is awesome.

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Re:Temporary tattoos fitted with electronics make flexible, ... by Pointsly on Friday August 12, 2011 @12:15AM (#2875959)

This will be instrumental for gamification.

See: http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/dice-2010-design-outside-the-bo...

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Re:Temporary tattoos fitted with electronics make flexible, ... by jamesbkel on Friday August 12, 2011 @08:46AM (#2877021)

I could see this becoming very popular as a heart-rate etc. monitor at high-end gyms. Slap on a tattoo that will interface with whatever machines you use, then wash it off in the shower.

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Re:Temporary tattoos fitted with electronics make flexible, ... by glimcat on Friday August 12, 2011 @12:19AM (#2875963)

Nice, but how scalable is the fabrication process?

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Re:Temporary tattoos fitted with electronics make flexible, ... by glimcat on Saturday August 13, 2011 @07:50PM (#2882324)

To answer my own question, there was an article in Science yesterday which goes into much more detail on this project. The backing appears quite scalable if there aren't any hidden gotchas that they didn't discuss. The electronics are probably the tricky part, but they still look doable.

MC10 is doing the commercialization.

http://mc10inc.com/pages/tech_overview.php

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