Wearable Electronics-
Now and Future?
A flexible, skin-like device can acquire electrical signals from the brain and skeletal muscles and potentially transmit the data it collects wire less ly.
It’s a doctor’s dream to be able to monitor patients as they go about their daily lives. That dream could someday become reality, thanks to a breakthrough in wearable electronics.
A research team led by University of Illinois materials science engineering professor John Rogers; University of California, San Diego, bioengineering professor Todd Coleman; and Northwestern University mechanical engineering professor Yonggang Huang has developed a thin, flexible device mounted with tiny electronic components.
It can acquire electrical signals from the brain and skeletal muscles and potentially transmit the data it collects wirelessly. Best of all, it doesn’t impede the wearer’s ability to function normally.
While traditional medical monitoring methods, such as electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocardiography (EMG), require patients to be tethered to bulky equipment, this device is applied like a temporary tattoo.
Now and Future?
A flexible, skin-like device can acquire electrical signals from the brain and skeletal muscles and potentially transmit the data it collects wire less ly.
It’s a doctor’s dream to be able to monitor patients as they go about their daily lives. That dream could someday become reality, thanks to a breakthrough in wearable electronics.
A research team led by University of Illinois materials science engineering professor John Rogers; University of California, San Diego, bioengineering professor Todd Coleman; and Northwestern University mechanical engineering professor Yonggang Huang has developed a thin, flexible device mounted with tiny electronic components.
It can acquire electrical signals from the brain and skeletal muscles and potentially transmit the data it collects wirelessly. Best of all, it doesn’t impede the wearer’s ability to function normally.
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