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Colour-changing tattoo monitors health in real time
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Wednesday, 14 June, 2017
An MIT-Harvard collaboration has developed a colour-changing tattoo that responds to changes in the body, such as blood sugar and sodium levels. The project 'DermalAbyss', uses a liquid with biosensors instead of traditional ink to render the surface of the human skin as an "interactive display". Researchers have tested the ink on pig skin but haven't planned human trials yet.
read more at MIT Media Lab