{"id":115628,"date":"2020-11-09T02:26:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T10:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/electronic-skin-promises-cheap-and-recyclable-alternative-to-wearable-devices"},"modified":"2020-11-09T02:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T10:26:49","slug":"electronic-skin-promises-cheap-and-recyclable-alternative-to-wearable-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/electronic-skin-promises-cheap-and-recyclable-alternative-to-wearable-devices","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Electronic skin\u2019 promises cheap and recyclable alternative to wearable devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electronic-skin-promises-cheap-and-recyclable-alternative-to-wearable-devices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are developing a wearable electronic device that\u2019s \u201creally wearable\u201d\u2014a stretchy and fully-recyclable circuit board that\u2019s inspired by, and sticks onto, human skin.<\/p>\n<p>The team, led by Jianliang Xiao and Wei Zhang, describes its new \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electronic+skin\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electronic skin<\/a>\u201d in a paper published today in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">device<\/a> can heal itself, much like real skin. It also reliably performs a range of sensory tasks, from measuring the body temperature of users to tracking their daily step counts.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s reconfigurable, meaning that the device can be shaped to fit anywhere on your body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are developing a wearable electronic device that\u2019s \u201creally wearable\u201d\u2014a stretchy and fully-recyclable circuit board that\u2019s inspired by, and sticks onto, human skin. The team, led by Jianliang Xiao and Wei Zhang, describes its new \u201celectronic skin\u201d in a paper published today in the journal Science Advances. The device [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}