First Electronic Tattoo Printed Onto Skin

First Electronic Tattoo Printed Onto Skin
March 12, 2013
by Nic Halverson
Beta News

The Rogers Research Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has given us stick-on electronic tattoos and stretchable batteries, but now theyâ€™ve outdone themselves by creating the first electronic sensor to be printed directly onto human skin.

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The printable sensors are an extension of the groups electronic tattoos and can measure skin hydration, temperature and electric signals from muscle and brain and activity.

Unlike the stick-on electronic tattoos that use an elastic polymer backing and can easily wash off in the shower or swimming pool, the new e-tats do away with the polymer backing and are printed directly on the skin. Doing so made the sensors 1/30th as thick as previous devices and better at conforming to the natural ridges of skin...

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