Most of us look at tattoos and their partners with irritation or anger because of the stereotype of the tattooed. But what if the tattoos become more than a fashion or an aesthetic form on the skin, offering you instantaneous information about your health and body condition?
This is the personal vision of Katia Vega, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, which she is reviewing through her DermalAbyss project, which explores the potential of tattoos that use biosensors inks instead of the conventional inks we used.
Together with the Harvard School of Medicine, Vega invented three different types of biosensors, which can measure any changes in the intracellular fluid, measure the levels of sugar and sodium in your blood, or even the degree of pH in the blood or human skin .
For more than 7 years she has been working on a project called "Beauty Technology", integrating the use of cosmetics with electronics to create non-traditional and slightly geek-like objects, such as smart artificial eyelashes , Data-mounted makeup, and RFID-tagged nail polish!
But while the above-mentioned innovations work on the interaction of its user with the outside world, the introduction of biological sensors beneath the skin can make it possible to link biological processes within our bodies with an external display interface ... our human skin itself!