Medical Technology: EES

EES patch attached to the skin

EES, stands for Epidermis Electronic System is now the new thing in medical industry. Remember how the hospital wards look like? Yeah, an advance, sophisticate machines attached to the patient where God knows what will happen if you unplug the machine. But thanks to researchers at the University of Illinois, together with the Northwestern University, Tufts University, the Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore, and the Dalian University of Technology, in China, who were also part of the study team, we'll probably say goodbye to these machines in the next decade.

This view will probably extinct in the next decade (God i hope so!!!)

The researchers said that the chip that they invented, will looks like a regular tattoo, but with the ability to transfer medical data wirelessly. Heart movement, brain activity, muscle monitoring and even speech pattern can be analyzed using this patch. With the existence of this patch, i think most people won't be afraid to go to hospital anymore because it's less scary and much more charming without the big, bulky machine.

This invention without doubt will blurred the boundary between technology and biology and hopefully with the advancement of this machine, the healthcare system especially in third world countries can be improved and lots of people can be saved within time. 

The lead project researcher, Yonggang Huang, explaining the EES technology

Source: Here and here.