Wearing a fitness tracker on your wrist or clipped to your belt is so 2013. Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have demonstrated thin, so... Read more
New electronic tattoos could help monitor health during normal daily activities. Skin signals: This device, applied directly to the skin, can record useful medical information. So-called “ep... Read more
The boundary that divides man from machine continues to dissolve — and in more literal ways than you might imagine. Scientists today announced a new class of electronics that can disappear c... Read more
Plastic or silk threads covered with temperature sensors and micro-heaters could keep tabs on infections and provide therapy. Surgical sutures are mindless threads no more. Researchers have... Read more