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Futurismic: Book your neural interface installation now: biodegradable implant circuits
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RT @blustr Reading "Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics" http://tinyurl.com/yzecf8g #grinding #h+ 11/4/2009 |
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Links for 3rd November 2009
Velcro City Tourist Board —
Fresh from the clogged tubes of teh intarwubs…
Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics
"By building thin, flexible silicon electronics on silk substrates, researchers have made electronics that almost completely dissolve inside the body. So far the research group has demonstrated arrays of transistors made on thin films of silk. While electronics must usually be encased to protect them from the body, these electronics don't need protection, and the silk means the electronics conform to biological tissue. The silk melts away over time and the thin silicon circuits left behind don't cause irritation because they ...
Book your neural interface installation now: biodegradable implant circuits
Futurismic —
Here’s an update for those of you who, like me, eagerly await the availability of your cyberpunk implant suite – experiments with using silk as a substrate for miniaturised electronic circuits show that they can integrate with animal body tissue without any adverse effects or biological rejection. [via NextBigFuture; image by Automatomato] Which means we can not only make better neural interfaces, but aesthetic gadgets like LED ‘tattoos’ to live under our skin:
To make the devices, silicon transistors about one millimeter long ...
