E-skin April 25, 2021

Ianna Lin --- 2021-04-25
E-skin April 25, 2021E-skin is a recent product created by Takao Someya. It is a wearable electronic skin that can be used to monitor health and track movements. E-skin is made from a nanomesh material that you place onto your skin, usually on the chest. It can be attached by water and lasts for about a week. It picks up biometric signals like heart beat and can be displayed on an LED pad that is placed on your hand. The LEDs can receive simple messages and show your heart rate. This new e-skin is great for elderly. It can help them monitor their own health and in the future, it might be able to diagnose illnesses. However, there is one huge concern about e-skin, and that is privacy. Health records are private and most people do not want their health to be displayed to the rest of the world. In addition to that, because the e-skin picks up data, that data can be collected by companies if they want to. In the end, there are pros and cons to this new e-skin. Source CNN 10: https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/22/cnn10/ten-content-fri/index.html
E-skin April 25, 2021