A chip tattoo for the future health

The future is getting closer. A kind of temporary tattoo with a chip will monit vital signs of patients in a non-intrusive. A technology to control the health. A tattoo with a chip can hope as a great help for the future of medicine and health. The device, in fact, will simply applying to the skin of the patient and the doctors will give an overview of its vital functions. All without wires, cables or electrodes.

This “tattoo” was developed by scientists at the University of Illinois and announced from the pages of Science magazine.

The discovery promises to revolutionize the medical world for the better. The device, in fact, was created with very similar properties to those of human epidermis: it is very thin, flexible, and minimally invasive. The data collected are those chips that are fundamental to every physician to ensure the health of a patient: heart rate, muscle activity, body temperature and much more.

In addition, this electronic tattoo make more reliable the data gathered for examinations of certain periods of time: no need for glue, wires, and thanks to its small size, in fact, the device will not cause discomfort to the patient in the long run, forget about wearing it .

Its particular shape is also useful to those who are suffering from severe neurological or muscular diseases: with special equipment, in fact, patients can communicate more easily and wirelessly.

The new technology can also be used outside of medicine have already been tested – the researchers reveal – scenarios of use in the field of gaming.

We are faced, finally, the much fantasized man-machine interface at the biological level? The lead researcher, John A. Rogers thinks the right way: “Our goal was to develop an electronic technology that can integrate with the skin in a way that is mechanically and physiologically invisible to the user. That is so found a solution that blurs the distinction between electronics and biology.”