Skin Message Display

Source: japantoday.com

Takao Someya, a University of Tokyo professor, created this ultra thin display / monitor. It is only one millimeter thick and can be attached to a person's skin, similar to a band aid. It is capable of sending and receiving messages and emojis.

Takao envisions many useful purposes for this device, "With this, even in home care settings, you can achieve seamless sharing of medical data with your home doctors, who then would be able to communicate back to their patients".

The display is a 16 by 24 array of micro LEDs and stretchable wiring mounted to a rubber sheet. It has a lightweight sensor made of a breathable nanomesh electrode and a wireless communication module. It can be attached to the skin for a week without causing skin inflammation.

Source: japantoday.com

He believes that device can have applications other than just medical. Some applications could be: used as a fitness monitor so people could monitor their heart rate as they exercised; technicians could have instructions relayed to the device that would provide them with technical information for repairing equipment or they could be used like one uses IM or texting.

Source: japantoday.com