Stick-On Tattoo Replaces Wires & Cables In Patient Monitoring

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Stick-On Tattoo Replaces Wires & Cables In Patient Monitoring
An ultra-thin, stick-on tattoo that incorporates the latest in sensor technology could one day replace the mass of wires and cables that connect patients to machines to monitor heart rate and brain waves. The new "electronic skin" technology, called epidermal electronics system (EES), was developed by an international team of scientists and engineers who write about their work in the 12 August issue of Science. The EES is the result of collaboration between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, and Tufts University, all in the US, and the Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore, and the Dalian University of Technology in China.