{"id":149401,"date":"2022-11-03T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/new-smart-tattoos-tackle-tech-challenges-of-on-skin-computing"},"modified":"2022-11-03T17:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T22:23:14","slug":"new-smart-tattoos-tackle-tech-challenges-of-on-skin-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/new-smart-tattoos-tackle-tech-challenges-of-on-skin-computing","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018smart tattoos\u2019 tackle tech challenges of on-skin computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Er8yJwxMnp4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Personal computing has gotten smaller and more intimate over the years\u2014from the desktop computer to the laptop, to smartphones and tablets, to smart watches and smart glasses.<\/p>\n<p>But the next generation of wearable computing technology\u2014for health and wellness, social interaction and myriad other applications\u2014will be even closer to the wearer than a watch or glasses: It will be affixed to the skin.<\/p>\n<p>On-skin interfaces\u2014sometimes known as \u201csmart tattoos\u201d\u2014have the potential to outperform the sensing capabilities of current wearable technologies, but combining comfort and durability has proven challenging. Now, members of Cornell\u2019s Hybrid Body Lab have come up with a reliable, skin-tight interface that\u2019s easy to attach and detach, and can be used for a variety of purposes\u2014from health monitoring to fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal computing has gotten smaller and more intimate over the years\u2014from the desktop computer to the laptop, to smartphones and tablets, to smart watches and smart glasses. But the next generation of wearable computing technology\u2014for health and wellness, social interaction and myriad other applications\u2014will be even closer to the wearer than a watch or glasses: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1495,1512,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-health","category-mobile-phones","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149401","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}