{"id":76043,"date":"2018-02-17T17:42:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T01:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/japanese-researchers-develop-ultrathin-highly-elastic-skin-display"},"modified":"2018-02-22T15:05:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T23:05:43","slug":"japanese-researchers-develop-ultrathin-highly-elastic-skin-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/japanese-researchers-develop-ultrathin-highly-elastic-skin-display","title":{"rendered":"Japanese researchers develop ultrathin, highly elastic skin display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanese-researchers-develop-ultrathin-highly-elastic-skin-display2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new ultrathin elastic display that fits snugly on the skin can show the moving waveform of an electrocardiogram recorded by a breathable, on-skin electrode sensor. Combined with a wireless communication module, this integrated biomedical sensor system, called \u201cskin electronics,\u201d can transmit biometric data to the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>This latest research by a Japanese academic-industrial collaboration, led by Professor Takao Someya at the University of Tokyo\u2019s Graduate School of Engineering, is slated for a news briefing and talk at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas on February 17th.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to advances in semiconductor technology, wearable devices can now monitor health by measuring vital signs or taking an electrocardiogram, and then transmitting the data wirelessly to a smartphone. The readings or electrocardiogram waveforms can be displayed on the screen in real time, or sent to the cloud or a memory device where the information is stored.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-02-japanese-ultrathin-highly-elastic-skin.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;02-japanese-ultrathin-h...-skin.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new ultrathin elastic display that fits snugly on the skin can show the moving waveform of an electrocardiogram recorded by a breathable, on-skin electrode sensor. Combined with a wireless communication module, this integrated biomedical sensor system, called \u201cskin electronics,\u201d can transmit biometric data to the cloud. This latest research by a Japanese academic-industrial collaboration, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1512,1412,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-mobile-phones","category-privacy","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76043","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76244,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76043\/revisions\/76244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}