The ’digital tattoos’ that could transform healthcare

Read the full story here: Chronically-ill patients could soon have “electronic tattoos” printed onto their skin to help monitor their vital signs, researchers claim. Rather than a true tattoo that is injected permanently into the skin, digital tattoos are thin, flexible patches of rubber with electronics that wrinkle and stretch without breaking. They can be printed directly onto the skin, with the ink drying in less than two minutes. The electronics work even after being bent out of shape more than a thousand times. and are websites of The Telegraph, the UK’s best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.
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