It could be a fun party trick – put your cell phone down on a table and watch it fade into the woodwork – or part of a lifesaving technology used by industry or the military. Researchers hav... Read more
Wearing a fitness tracker on your wrist or clipped to your belt is so 2013. Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have demonstrated thin, so... Read more
New electronic tattoos could help monitor health during normal daily activities. Skin signals: This device, applied directly to the skin, can record useful medical information. So-called “ep... Read more
The rechargeable battery can stretch, twist and bend — and return to normal shape Northwestern University’s Yonggang Huang and the University of Illinois’ John A. Rogers are the first... Read more
The boundary that divides man from machine continues to dissolve — and in more literal ways than you might imagine. Scientists today announced a new class of electronics that can disappear c... Read more
Electricity controls much of the human body: consider the electrical firing of neurons and the current transmitted by the heart. Yet historically the electrodes that have been used in medici... Read more