These Tattoos Will Change Color If One Has Low Blood Sugar
Ellen Smith — May 30, 2017 — Tech
References: katiavega & fastcodesign
These health-monitoring tattoos created by MIT researcher Katia Vega change color based on your body's needs.
Vega explores what she calls "beauty technology" -- finding ways to combine cosmetics and electronics to produce smart beauty technology. She's endeavored smart eyelashes, and smart hair extensions, and is now branching into smart tattoos. Vega packs tattoo ink full with biosensors, that measure shifts in interstitial fluid in your skin. The biosensors can change color based on changing levels of glucose, sodium, or PH in one's body, alerting the wearer in a subtle, yet unavoidable way. For someone with diabetes, biosensor tattoos would eliminate the need for daily finger prick tests to check their blood sugar levels as they can monitor the changes in their levels visually.
Vega explores what she calls "beauty technology" -- finding ways to combine cosmetics and electronics to produce smart beauty technology. She's endeavored smart eyelashes, and smart hair extensions, and is now branching into smart tattoos. Vega packs tattoo ink full with biosensors, that measure shifts in interstitial fluid in your skin. The biosensors can change color based on changing levels of glucose, sodium, or PH in one's body, alerting the wearer in a subtle, yet unavoidable way. For someone with diabetes, biosensor tattoos would eliminate the need for daily finger prick tests to check their blood sugar levels as they can monitor the changes in their levels visually.
Trend Themes
1. Health-monitoring Tattoos - Tattoo parlors and cosmetic companies can collaborate to offer health-monitoring tattoos as an alternative to traditional blood sugar testing.
2. Beauty Technology - Smart beauty technology can offer customers a more personalized and accessible approach to tracking their health.
3. Biosensors - The implementation of biosensors in wearable technology can lead to a more precise tracking of body chemistry and other health markers.
Industry Implications
1. Tattoo Industry - The tattoo industry can embrace health-monitoring tattoos as an innovative service to expand their offerings.
2. Cosmetic Industry - The use of smart technology in cosmetics can allow for a wider range of personalized products as well as more efficient and convenient methods of tracking health.
3. Wearable Technology Industry - Incorporating biosensors into wearable technology can provide better health tracking and monitoring, opening up opportunities for new products and services.
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