What if you could use your tattoos for more than just letting people know which band you were really into in college? What if your tattoo could control your smartwatch?
New Scientist has a report of a team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has created a flexible electronic skin that conforms to the body and can monitor the brain's electrical activity. The tiny EEG can monitor brain activity for up to two weeks before falling off, so it's really more of a temporary tattoo than a permanent one.
Consisting of a small system of gold electrodes that hide discreetly behind the wearer's ear, the digital tattoo was attached to test subjects who then used the power of their minds to spell out the word "COMPUTER" on a screen in front of them, presumably in some sort of test to label things as literally as possible.
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New Scientist has a report of a team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has created a flexible electronic skin that conforms to the body and can monitor the brain's electrical activity. The tiny EEG can monitor brain activity for up to two weeks before falling off, so it's really more of a temporary tattoo than a permanent one.
Consisting of a small system of gold electrodes that hide discreetly behind the wearer's ear, the digital tattoo was attached to test subjects who then used the power of their minds to spell out the word "COMPUTER" on a screen in front of them, presumably in some sort of test to label things as literally as possible.
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