Innovation

Kiber-tattoo, looking after the health of the owner

Researchers of university of Illinois have developed an electronic device executed in the form of the small film similar to a tattoo. The given Hi-Tech device is attached to a skin and is capable to measure the basic vital indicators of an organism on which is established, operatively transferring them on the set computer.

The device consists of electrodes, sensor controls, the block of the power supply and the wireless transmitter of data. Sensor controls can register humidity of a skin and its temperature. The elastic basis in the long term will allow to observe of accretion of sites of a skin after surgical operations.

Time of a life of the device today is  two weeks after which expiration "tattoo" simply disappears from a skin.