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Bio-tech… it’s not all bionics & stem-cell manipulation

I love the blend of technology and medicine/biology. Here’s a great technology that appears to hold tremendous promise: ways to expose attributes of our bodies to the outside world, in this case, blood-sugar levels. Basically, it’s a formulated ink that changes color based on the owner’s blood sugar levels, obviating the need to do regular finger-pricks to measure.

Such a device (tattoo) could alert first-aid givers of an unconscious diabetic’s condition as well as an accurate level (once the tech is perfected) of glucose in the patient’s bloodstream. The technology has a way to go before it is accurate, reliable, and cheap enough to become the norm. But the march of technology is swift, determined and never seems to stop. I suspect these techniques will be commonplace within a decade.

Here’s a decent, if lengthy treatment of the subject and the technology.

Although, a similar concept taken much further was posted years ago in this concept video. Nano particles that turn a patch of skin into a display device. Combine that with internal sensors that can report such events as heart rhythm, white blood cell count, and even an orgasm count. Not sure why that would be something you really need to know, let alone show others, but hey- some people might like to advertise their active libido.

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