TECHNOLOGY TIPS - HAVE BIONICS OF THE FUTURE ARRIVED?
NEW "FLEXIBLE" TECHNOLOGY
I was just reading this and had to share.
A team of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign scientists, led by John Rogers, have created silicon circuits that can be bent, stretched or twisted without breaking or losing their electronic properties.
Circuit sheets with a total thickness of 1.5 micrometers (about 50 times thinner than human hair) are composed of nanoribbons of single crystalline silicon. The sheets are bonded together to a pre-stretched band of rubber creating the flexibility of bending, stretching or twisting. 
There are a myriad implications of this new technology. "'We think that the most promising initial applications are those that involve the integration of electronics and sensors with the human body," Rogers says.
Don't get too excited just yet. In order for these medical advances to take place, the material needs to change to be able to work in the human body.
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