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Puzzle Series: What is this, or what do you want it to be?
13 responses to “What’s That? (#104)”
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It’s an Epidermal Electronic System!
I only know this because they were developed at the University of Illinois, and I live nearby 🙂
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Human body powered medical monitor and transmitter.
or the mark of an UFO abductee
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a badge of honor… like the abductee t-shirts in Second Life
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/gi] – Doubleplusgood
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhague] knew it… so perhaps you can imagine all the things it might be used for…
This particular patch is a demonstration platform for multifunctional electronics with physical properties matched to the epidermis (thicknesses elastic moduli, bending stiffnesses, and areal mass densities). It can measure electrical activity produced by the heart, brain, and skeletal muscles (ECG, EEG and EMG). Outputs include LEDs, RF antennae and direct stimulation of muscle contractions.
Here’s a close-up I took:
And annotations from Science
It is manufactured with a lift-off MEMS process. The etched silicon is then stretched and attached to a polymer backing. Silicon usage is minimized over the substrate and the ensemble is quite flexible, as seen in the original photo.
More from the Rogers Research Group at the U of Illinois.
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Why? Because with this disposable patch, and a ward equipped with RF/IR/etc readers, you can then continuously monitor vital signs without having to walk around touching patients or sticking expensive things in/on them. Which is convenient if you have 1000s of patients and can only afford to employ one nurse. But the proponents will probably spin it to say it’s a step change in the quality of medical data acquisition.
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Looks like we we all be getting hooked up the the UBSN at some point. The Ubiquitous Body Sensor Network. http://www.springerlink.com/content/5vn713m5142r5817/abstract/ How about some RFID implants to go along with the ones you already have? Oh, you didn’t know they were there? How can that be. Uhhh, you better wait here while I get some results. -Dr leaves the room locking the door from the outside, picks up the phone…..
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bloom.bg/qcoVQR#ooid=dyNTR2Mjom-S_GUlH4mR1nAfUIHZtHF8
Of course we must have all our soldiers on the battlefield, pilots, men and women controlling the drones, robots and weapons systems provided with various versions of these. They can easily be as common as bandaids and part of every medical kit. For high value mission critical individuals I’m sure they won’t object to having the surgically embedded versions according to rank and status. If they do object and there is not a transdermal or oral alternative, policy will then need to determine if that is mandatory. Prisoners should be much less problematic in this regard and will welcome these as an alternative to devices like bulky, embarrassing and outdated ankle monitors.
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