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Harvard and MIT developing "smart tattoos

There seems to be a smart tattoo approach to the "problem of how to get people to wear smart devices" in IoT for use in medical and nursing care. This is interesting.

Announcing "Smart Tattoo" that changes color based on health status. May solve power and connectivity problems of health trackers?

Wearable devices that monitor people's health by monitoring their physical condition have been around for a long time, and smartbands are one of the most readily available devices, but most of them require a network connection at some point during use and have battery life issues. Many of them need to be connected to a network at some point during use, and they also have battery life issues.

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If the range of information that can be detected by biosensitive ink (and related technologies) expands in the future, it could significantly change the nature of wearable devices with healthcare functions, at the very least. If the range of information that can be detected by bio-sensitive ink (and related technologies) expands in the future, it could change the nature of wearable devices with healthcare functions.

The point of this quoted part is that the act of wearing the device is costly. The act of wearing the device is high cost, not to mention the cost of maintaining the device. There will be a lot of issues on how to learn about changes in physical condition, but if the technology of biosensitive ink is developed, it may become killer content. Of course, there is the issue of price, so it will first be used in a limited medical field. I am looking forward to it.

The dermal abyss: interfacing with the skin by tattooing biosensors