The past few years have witnessed quite a few numbers of pliant, electronic concepts of skin patch for things such as monitoring health conditions, or administering medicine, but lately the most advanced version from the researchers at the Tokyo’s University integrates an LED display to this mix. The fine thin patch is made from a breathable, flexible material, and can simultaneously display and measure the heartbeat of a wearer in real-time.
Professor Takao Someya along with his team from the University of Tokyo has developed this patch device that can be attached to the skin just like a second body skin, as reported by the AFP. This device could prove to be useful in times of emergency, for those patients who require instant monitoring. With this the condition of the patient will be monitored and directly sent to the doctor from the device, yet in a reliable way.
It’s by usage of the expandable wiring and nanomesh electrodes, the patch attributes an array of micro LED, which can bend along with the skin and can show animated, simple imagery, like a waveform of an electrocardiogram. The concept for the patch is not only for projecting health information to the wearer, but also letting others know about what’s wrong in any emergency.
Another stirring fact about this is that the sensor is capable of pairing with any smartphone for the storage purpose of the biometric data can also be a. Furthermore the data can also be transmitted to the cloud storage. The researchers envisage the patch as a health monitoring non-invasive system for the home-bound or an elderly, having officials of healthcare who are able to monitor remotely about the condition of the wearer.
The stretchable capability of the patch is almost about 45% of its original size and length, and it is equipped to of great resistance for the wear and tear of the past skin displays. Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing and the University of Tokyo hope to start with the mass production of the patch by the coming three years, along with enhanced reliability and also the ability for covering larger space.
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