Epidermal Electronics // Tattoos & Transistors
This week has seen the publishing of a fairly major breakthrough in the field of man/machine interfacing. The epidermal electronic system (EES) developed by researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (and numerous other institutions) have developed a technique which allows the transfer of circuitry onto human skin using techniques identical to that of a temporary tattoo. This gives me the rare excuse to write some proper science. The task of integrating circuitry with…