Biodegradable Electronics

Biodegradable electronics are a novel type of electronic system designed for short-term prosthesis. That is to say, for body implantation to perform a task the body cannot do whilst it heals. Once the tissue is regenerated, or after a set amount of time determined by the precise biodegradable material they are made from, the electronic systems dissolve into the body.

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Biodegradable Electronics

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Biodegradable Integrated circuits - Transient Electronics
A fully biodegradable type of integrated circuit has been developed. Intended for implantation into the body, it is a class of circuitry which, if its protective shell is ruptured; dissolves quickly and completely in the body's fluids.

Using RFID to Monitor Implants
A biodegradable, edible RFID chip, hoped to be swallowed and tracked through the stomach, may actually have a far wider range of applications than the one aimed at.

$250,000 Ambulance
Better help is on the way for the 30-odd million people who call on EMS every year. Shrinking electronics, wireless proliferation and ?smart? materials from the likes of NASA are set to transform the ambulance into a virtually mobile emergency room.

Ubiquitous Lifesigns Monitoring
Embedding electronics directly into fabrics, and weaving intelligent clothing is quite possible these days. Thus, it is not a great step to envisage clothes which continuously monitor your vital signs, and relay that information to a computer system, also located about your person, or in your house or vehicle.

Reactive Silver Ink Allows Reliable Printed Electronics
One of the key issues when printing electronic circuits on the fly, is ensuring reliability. You don't wish to be in the situation where you have to go over the new circuitry by hand to look for places the conductive ink has not affixed to the surface properly, not if you are making complex 3D shapes with internal circuitry, and aiming to keep the price as low as possible.

Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers

This book is basically a mixture of electronics guide and augmented reality bible. Not so much about the visual aspects, but about the ubiquitous computing platform, intelligent objects and sensor web.

Wafer Thin Flexible Integrated Circuits
A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania has shown that nanoscale particles, or nanocrystals, of the semiconductor cadmium selenide can be "printed" or "coated" on flexible plastics to form high-performance electronics that can be bent, flexed, and even folded, without losing their capability to computate.

Philips euHeart Computer Modelling Project Aims to Build a Virtual Heart
Philips Electronics announced at the end of August 2008, that it was going to lead a consortium, with the express goal of developing a virtual reality heart simulator sophisticated enough to be used in patient care.

Do It Yourself: Prosthetic Limbs
In 2004, Mark Lesak, a Tasmanian male and electronics engineer, was involved in a car accident. It saw his right arm torn from his body. The remaining twisted wreck had to be amputated, and the entire shoulder joint had to go. This left him in a pickle, as without a shoulder joint, no existing prosthetic arm would graft to his body.

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