The Future: Digital Tattoos That Deliver Medication and Tweets

unnamedBeing uncomfortable in the skin you’re in may have a new meaning in the near future. That’s when digital, electronic skin tattoos will wrangle your body’s data while delivering a dose of useful medicine. It will also be able to tweet all of these details, but hopefully, it actually won’t.

There have been a lot of work in the field of wearable electronics, specifically thin membranes that essentially act as temporary tattoos. The trouble with them, however, is their inability to function for long periods of time without being permanently affixed to a power source.

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