'Rubber-Band Electronics' Can Stretch To 200 Percent Their Original Size 37
Zothecula writes "In the quest to develop implantable electronics to monitor the human body from within, flexibility and stretchability have been major hurdles. We've seen numerous developments including stretchable LED arrays, an implantable device for measuring the heart's electrical output, and an electrode array that melts onto the surface of the brain. Now researchers have developed technology that combines a porous polymer and liquid metal that allows electronics to bend and stretch to more than 200 percent their original size (abstract)."
A new era (Score:4, Funny)
of teledildonics is surely upon us.
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Re:A new era (Score:4, Funny)
Great. We'll go out to buy a 50" television and when we get home we'll discover the giant box has a 25" and we are expected to stretch it.
Then there are the inflatable robots...
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I was laughingly thinking of something with electronics, where the user might be surprised to find it needed to be stretched to get to the advertised size. But I like the idea of a television that deflates when shot or stabbed...
Will technology help save mankind? Just think of the efficiency of having the homeless earn money as walking video ad platforms using wearable electronics. With more ad area, overweight people might actually prove superior for the task. Methane fuel-cell underwear? Man is not
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Who buys a 12" Stonehenge?
Melts onto the surface of the brain? (Score:2)
Melts onto the surface of the brain? I can't imagine that being abused.
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Queue the Borg posts in 3, 2, 1,,,,
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It remind me of Milo Manara's Comic Book "The Click".
How about for frivolous things? (Score:2)
Imagine the frist time you meet someone in a nightclub with leds under their skin...
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Oh no, that'll be so much worse than the random piercings, tattoos, surgically inserted eye decorations, or any of the other drek that people do to get attention!
Except you could turn them off. Personally, I'd pay good money for an implantable watch that ran on energy from glucose in the blood or some such.
Personally, I want the new body-alteration craze to be glow in the dark/blacklight tattoos. In normal lighting, some observant people might notice a mild discoloration, but once you go to the UV flooded rave, the art shines clearly. (also fun on certain Disney rides)
These things, along with metallic inks, already exist though they are somewhat rare and the ink formulations still have some issues such as longevity and brightness.
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Personally, I'd pay good money for an implantable watch that ran on energy from glucose in the blood or some such.
You could make a fortune if you could make a device that would monitor the glucose level and simply burn excess above ~100 mcg/L. Sits in the renal or hepatic artery and dumps waste product into the lower intestine or bladder directly. Much better use of the technology than a simple watch.
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Liquid Metal? (Score:2)
Where have I heard this before?
Liquid metal? What could possibly go wrong? (Score:2)
Liquid metal in a porous rubber container inside of your body? What could possibly go wrong?
Stretching the Imagination of Design (Score:3)
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I'm not sure if you were going for Insightful or Funny with this one!
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Guitar cord bungee jumping can't be far off! (Score:2)
Amp stack stays on the bridge, player rocks out over the edge.
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... although, we have wireless for that, so, dumb idea.