Dissolvable electronics are being developed that could allow improvements to clinical medicine, such as temporary electrical brain monitors, or electrical simulators to accelerate bone growth, or even progreammed for drug delivery.
Electronic devices that dissolve completely in water, leaving behind only harmless end products, are part of a rapidly emerging class of technology pioneered by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Early results demonstrate the entire complement of building blocks for integrated circuits, along with various sensors and actuators with relevance to clinical medicine, including most recently intracranial monitors for patients with traumatic brain injury. The advances suggest a new era of devices that range from green consumer electronics to ‘electroceutical’ therapies, to biomedical sensor systems that do their work and then disappear.
(Score: 1) by Lazarus on Monday October 13 2014, @06:39PM
stimulators, programmed.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday October 13 2014, @07:02PM
Poster's circuits dissolving perhaps?
With spell checking built into every modern browsing, You have to wonder how "progreammed" got through.
Being a horrible speller, I'd be lost without browser based spell checking.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 13 2014, @07:07PM
Sorry for being completely offtopic, but what's with the odd placement of serif and sans-serif fonts in the comments recently, like so [imgur.com]?
(Score: 2) by skullz on Monday October 13 2014, @07:31PM
Some people are apparently cooler than others.
I leave defining which font is cooler as an exercise for the reader.
(Score: 3, Informative) by TK on Tuesday October 14 2014, @05:01PM
If you select "code" from the drop down list below the comment text input field (other options are "Plain Old Text", HTML and Extrans), your entire comment will appear in a monospaced font.
You can also use <code> or <tt> tags to make a section of your comment monospaced.
The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday October 13 2014, @07:12PM
Everyone knows the pr0n industry in general drives all high tech, so I'm trying to figure out some apps. Other than insertable / implantable temporary stimulators I donno so far.
(Score: 1) by ljbryant on Monday October 13 2014, @07:39PM
Better not water cool that. One leak, and you have no electronics left :-)
(Score: 1) by Uncle Bob on Monday October 13 2014, @10:21PM
One use I can think of was when I had a ruptured brain aneurysm and after the surgery everyday for a week a medical student would come and take Doppler readings of my brain. This technology could have been used to replace the student.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday October 13 2014, @11:17PM
The perfect technology to manipulate people with implants and then being able to just let go and leave no traces of such operation.