Hasta La Ideas

Here we go, folks: As reported in Plastics News, researchers have developed skin-mounted electronics and published their findings last week in an issue of the Science journal. What the team of research engineers (from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, led by engineering prof John Rogers) have physically achieved is functional circuits embedded in a thin polymer substrate which can then be moistened and adhered to your skin. I suppose you could also lick-it-and-stick-it, like a postage stamp.

These circuit-containing band-aids can support “sensors, LEDs, transistors, radio frequency capacitors, wireless antennas, conductive coils and solar cells.” Even more impressive, the substrate they’re mounted in can flex and wrinkle along with your skin, so conceivably even Luke Perry could wear one of these on his forehead.

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