Guys, please don’t, I repeat, DO NOT show this to the tattoo guys down the street. If you do, then we’re gonna get a revolution on the fashion sense of tattoo and skin embedment. Yes, LED lights are cool, and they look great on your car as the morning running lights. But we humans are cool enough, and we don’t need these LEDs on our skin as daylight running lights please. Someone in their sane mind went to develop this international research project or implantable LEDs.

John Rogers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has headed up a research team with participants from the US, China, Korea, and Singapore, who have together produced and demonstrated a new flexible and implantable LED array. Bettering previous efforts at inserting lights under the human skin, this approach allows for stretching and twisting by as much as 75 percent, while the whole substrate is encased in thin silicon rubber making it waterproof. Basically, it’s a green light to sub-dermal illumination, which could aid such things as monitoring the healing of wounds, activating light-sensitive drug delivery, spectroscopy, and even robotics. Reminds me of the robot project in university, where the robots identify the balls in their colour, and separate them to two categories. Are the robots gonna do that to us like how they does the balls?

SOURCE via physorg