Researchers Build Water Soluble Chips

angry tapir writes "Researchers in the U.S. have developed integrated circuits that can stick to the skin like a child's tattoo and in some cases dissolve in water when they're no longer needed. The 'bio chips' can be worn comfortably on the body to help diagnose and treat illnesses. The circuits are so thin that when they're peeled away from the body they hang like a sliver of dead skin, with a tangle of fine wires visible under a microscope. Similar circuits could one day be wrapped around the heart like 'an electronic pericardium' to correct irregularities such as arrhythmia."

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Self heating tea?

[Anonymous Coward]

Does this mean self heating food containers might be made biodegradable? :o

Soluble, eh?

[girlintraining]

Similar circuits could one day be wrapped around the heart like 'an electronic pericardium' to correct irregularities such as arrhythmia."

Soluble... That word, I do not think it means what you think it means. Well, it's a good thing the human body doesn't consist primarily of water. Also, slashdot: First you're down for several hours last night, and now your editors have apparently been outsourced to india and have only a tenuous grasp on the english language. Yes, go run to the dictionary, I can wait. As for the rest of you: Does anyone else think Dice has sucked so hard since acquiring the site they're in danger of forming an event horizon from which even a clue cannot escape?