They know how to measure our sleep, play our sports coach and monitor our diet. Soon connected products will also act as “telemedics” by monitoring our state of health wherever we go. The latest innovation is an electronic patch no bigger than a bandage and that you carry around everywhere. This is also its main asset: it lands on the skin and incognito records movements and potentially abnormal biological signals such as tremors. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, this tool measures our muscle activity and can even watch for symptoms associated with a pathology.
To understand the genius of this invention, you have to open your bowels. Its microbatteries merge with innovative concepts such as microfluidics or interconnections installed like origami (Japanese folding).
This feat is the work of John Roger from the University of Illinois and Yonggang Huang from Northwestern University in the United States. This little nugget of the future intends, according to its inventors, quoted by AFP, “to revolutionize clinical monitoring by electroencephalogram or electrocardiogram”.
This invention, detailed in the journal Science, could ultimately help the elderly and people with chronic diseases.