Digital Tattoos are invading the Healthcare industry

Modern science is making digital tattoos a reality. Imagine a world where skin tattoos can unlock your phone, give you a synopsis of your symptoms or give you entrance to doors. Or how about if digital tattoos could measure your blood pressure and hydration levels while you go about your day and give you alerts on your phone whether to drink more water or eat less sugar. In a world where everything becomes scaled very quickly into technology, digital tattoos can be the next big thing.

Our bodies are the next frontier for technology and research to develop digital tattoos have kicked into high gear. Although smartwatches have adapted to take on some medical features, for example, monitor our heart rate and they bring ease to our lives. The next innovative experience is to use the human body. Hexo Skin which is a sports medicine company is already improving performance by creating a T-shirt with digital sensors women into the fabric to measure heart rate, breathing, the number of steps you take, calories burned, etc. Also, researchers are actively working on nanotechnology with micro pills with a digital tracking system. Technically there are microsized robots that swim through your body fluids to track health.

Digital tattoos are possible with the advancement ins 3D printing technology. They mark rubber backings that get placed on to the skin without causing any irritation. The flexible and waterproof materials are also resistant to stretching and twisting to keep scanning and tracking accuracy. In the future, these patches could eventually track muscle movement and understand speech if they were to be attached to the throat.