A wireless, wearable monitor built with stretchable electronics could allow comfortable, long-term health monitoring of adults, babies and small children without concern for skin injury or allergic reactions caused by conventional adhesive sensors with conductive gels.
The soft and conformable monitor can broadcast electrocardiogram (ECG), heart rate, respiratory rate and motion activity data as much as 15 meters to a portable recording device such as a smartphone or tablet computer. The electronics are mounted on a stretchable substrate and connected to gold, skin-like electrodes through printed connectors that can stretch with the medical film in which they are embedded.
"This health monitor has a key advantage for young children who are always moving, since the soft conformal device can accommodate that activity with a gentle integration onto the skin," said Woon-Hong Yeo, an assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. "This is designed to meet the electronic health monitoring needs of people whose sensitive skin may be harmed by conventional monitors."
Details of the monitor were reported July 24 in the journal Advanced Science. The research was supported by the Imlay Innovation Fund at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, NextFlex (Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Institute), and by a seed grant from the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology at Georgia Tech. The monitor has been studied on both animal models and humans.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190730182428.htm
Yun‐Soung Kim, Musa Mahmood, Yongkuk Lee, Nam Kyun Kim, Shinjae Kwon, Robert Herbert, Donghyun Kim, Hee Cheol Cho, Woon‐Hong Yeo. All‐in‐One, Wireless, Stretchable Hybrid Electronics for Smart, Connected, and Ambulatory Physiological Monitoring. Advanced Science, 2019; 1900939 DOI: 10.1002/advs.201900939
(Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Wednesday July 31 2019, @08:12PM (1 child)
Well now we know why they are wearing tight jumpsuits in the future, it generates electricity passively and allows for absolute monitoring of every biological and electromagentic detail of your body.
Why if you wear this red white and blue or red and yellow morphsuit, we will know you are a loyal citizen and you will get a discount on your taxes and pizza icon merit badge to poste on your social credit score wall.
Have you heard of the new offer? Just step into this vat of good and let us put this cord in the back of your head.
Then you can live in 1997, when the internet was new, and it wasn't destroying the world by enabling fascists and spies to ruin everything, and you could still make believe that we weren't destroying the world with drinking straws.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 01 2019, @04:31AM
> you could still make believe that we weren't destroying the world with drinking straws.
It amazes me how first worlders manage to blame themselves for things that the 3rd world does to much more severe degrees:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plastic-tide-10-rivers-contribute-most-of-the-plastic-in-the-oceans/ [scientificamerican.com]
Maybe your politicians want you to become more like the 3rd world: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/sanders-distances-himself-from-2011-editorial-on-his-senate-website-praising-the-american-dream-in-venezuela [washingtonexaminer.com]
Or certain political parties using lies of omission to make it seem like certian crimes against humanity were uniquely USA: https://archive.is/TOIX [archive.is] and https://web.archive.org/web/20110725220038/http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/whtslav.htm [archive.org]