{"id":9922,"date":"2014-01-20T20:53:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T04:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9922"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:17:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:17:50","slug":"thin-stretchy-dissolvable-health-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/thin-stretchy-dissolvable-health-gadgets","title":{"rendered":"Thin, Stretchy, Dissolvable Health Gadgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>John A. Rogers, University of Illinois<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Fitness buffs are going gaga for gadgets like the Fitbit Flex and Jawbone UP \u2014 for now. Although the stylish rubber bracelets can monitor heart rate, sleep patterns and other vital signs, and even display them on a smartphone, John Rogers thinks wearable health can do better.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s often clunky self-health trackers are \u201cjust hanging there,\u201d said Rogers, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a result, they only measure a handful of biological functions. \u201cWe want to go for more sophisticated, clinical quality measurements in ordinary daily life. Being intimately in contact with the skin is the only way to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozy.com\/fast-forward\/tattoo-like-electronics\/4881.article\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John A. Rogers, University of Illinois Fitness buffs are going gaga for gadgets like the Fitbit Flex and Jawbone UP \u2014 for now. Although the stylish rubber bracelets can monitor heart rate, sleep patterns and other vital signs, and even display them on a smartphone, John Rogers thinks wearable health can do better. Today\u2019s often [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47281,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions\/47281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}