University of Illinois has developed an ultra thin electronic patch with mechanics of skin that can be used for monitoring your health 24/7.
The patch may be the size of a small tattoo, the skin part of the body is a great point of integration and it allows devices that are skin-like to intimately integrate very advanced semiconductor technology and sensors with the body.
In future, leveraging the near-field coupling technology with the skin monitoring one may be able to use smartphones to directly have a mechanism for data transfer and real-time monitoring 24 x 7 including EKG.
For more details visit: http://bioengineering.illinois.edu/
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