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[mikethedj4]

A team of engineers today announced a discovery that could change the world of electronics forever. Called an "epidermal electronic system" (EES), it's basically an electronic circuit mounted on your skin, designed to stretch, flex, and twist — and to take input from the movements of your body.

EES is a leap forward for wearable technologies, and has potential applications ranging from medical diagnostics to video game control and accelerated wound-healing. Engineers John Rogers and Todd Coleman, who worked on the discovery, tell io9 it's a huge step towards erasing the divide that separates machine and human.

Coleman and Rogers say they developed EES to forego the hard and rigid electronic "wafer" format of traditional electronics in favor of a softer, more dynamic platform. [read more]

[CodenStuff]

Oh great! soon as this is perfected the government will have us all barcoded :lol: - you KNOW it will happen.

Still I think it will be great for all kinds of stuff like they said using them to play computer games, health monitoring and I bet eventually paying for stuff aswell. Infact having something like that fused to your skin in some way could be a good thing for everyone because it could hold payment info, name/address, used to start your car and measure your alcohol levels so it wont let you drive drunk etc..and medical info so if you have an accident doctors will be able to find out who you are and your medical history etc very quickly..it will all have to be secure data in some way but yes I can see amazing possibilities for this tech cooll;

[Agust1337]

Wouldn't much want it if it was hackable like computer OS's lol

[comathi]

I wonder if you could Jailbreak yourself