Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Skin-mounted electronic displays previously required long-lasting plastic. Researchers have created a bio-degradable film made from fish scales:
[Within] flexible temporary electronic displays [...] electricity-conducting and light-emitting components are layered onto a transparent film. To make them flexible enough to withstand the bending required to stay on skin or other soft surfaces, researchers have so far relied on films made of plastic -- a substance derived from fossil fuels, a limited resource and a source of pollution. Hai-Dong Yu, Juqing Liu, Wei Huang and colleagues wanted to find a more sustainable and environmentally friendly material for the film. They settled on gelatin derived from collagen in fish scales, which are usually thrown away.
Journal Reference:
Xiaopan Zhang, Tengyang Ye, Xianghao Meng, Zhihui Tian, Lihua Pang, Yaojie Han, Hai Li, Gang Lu, Fei Xiu, Hai-Dong Yu, Juqing Liu, Wei Huang. Sustainable and Transparent Fish Gelatin Films for Flexible Electroluminescent Devices. ACS Nano, 2020; DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b09880
See Also: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acsnano.9b09880/suppl_file/nn9b09880_si_001.pdf for supplemental information.
-- submitted from IRC
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 22 2020, @07:04PM (1 child)
Who wants their phone to smell like old fish?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 22 2020, @07:17PM
Yo mama won't mind, she's used to it.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 22 2020, @07:23PM
How about just "wearable". Take a sheet of plastic, stick it to yourself, and see if it's comfortable. Does it make you sweat? Does it pinch? Wear it all day, and maybe all night as well. Do you still want it on your arm, or where ever?
I truly expect that almost any form of gelatin material will be comfortable. It probably breathes, for starters.
Wonder if I could convince them to send me some samples to test?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2020, @03:20AM
Until they become an attractive economic resource. Then we'll be over fishing inedible fish species just to collect the scales and discard the rest. Just because we can find a use for something discarded doesn't mean the end result will be sustainable and environmentally friendly.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday March 23 2020, @05:29PM
Everyone should get a skin mounted payment and identification device on their right hand.
As an optional, extra cost feature, they could also be PDAs.
I expect these devices are not permanent, so they must be re-applied periodically.
Since these are universally required, but not everyone can afford one, a larger sized device can be applied to one's forehead for no cost. It continually shows color animated advertising banners when not making a payment or proving your identity.
Teens will fight over who gets to display the coolest ads or brands.
It will make it easier to identify the dead on the sidewalks, in homeless alley ways, or standing in line at the Apple store for a new shiny.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.