'Tattoo' reads your brain and bump

• Autores: Sara Reardon
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2914, 2013, pág. 24
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Reardon introduces an "electronic tattoo" that monitors complex brain activity. An "electronic tattoo" containing flexible electronic circuits can now record some complex brain activity as accurately as an EEG. The tattoo could also provide a cheap way to monitor a developing fetus. The first electronic tattoo appeared in 2011, when Todd Coleman at the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues designed a transparent patch containing electronic circuits as thin as a human hair. Applied to skin like a temporary tattoo, these could be used to monitor electrophysiological signals associated with the heart and muscles, as well as rudimentary brain activity.