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Electronic skin

Tiny, nearly invisible devices stick to skin, ‘talk’ to computers

By Stephen Ornes / January 18, 2012

By Stephen Ornes / January 18, 2012

 

John Rogers, a materials scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, mixes electronics with the human body to create new devices not found even in science fiction.

 

 

 

Skin-based, or epidermal, electronic systems stick to the skin like temporary tattoos. Attached to the head, they can pick up electrical signals from the brain. Credit: Image courtesy John A. Rogers

a New Way for people to use their brains to talk to machines — or even each other. Todd Coleman and his team at The University of California San Diego imagines a world in which people can work together, or even think together, using the devices to transmit information directly from their minds. “You could interact with a friend in both the natural and virtual world, using not only your behavior but also your thoughts,” he says.