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Off the shelf, on the skin: Stick-on electronic patches for health monitoring (w/ video)

Thin, soft stick-on patches that stretch and move with the skin incorporate commercial, off-the-shelf chip-based electronics for sophisticated wireless health monitoring. The new device was developed ... read more

Stretchy, health monitoring skin patch uses off-the-shelf components

A team of engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University is developing a stick-on patch ... off-the-shelf, chip-based electronics to deliver a soft, tattoo-lik... read more

Scientists Develop a Way to Keep Your Pacemaker From Getting Hacked

The team will present their experiments with defibrillators [pdf], with off-the-shelf radio transmitters playing the role of the shield, at the SIGCOMM conference in Toronto. How the Heck: Many medica... read more

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Fire HD 10 Tablet with Alexa Hands-Free: 33 percent off — This best-selling tablet is perfect for watching Full HD video, playing games, reading magazines, and streaming content seamlessly. It feature... read more

Seymour fined $7,500 for pulling Clady’s hair

Oakland Raiders’ defensive end Richard Seymour was fined $7,500 by the NFL for the unnecessary roughness penalty he received for pulling on the cornrows belonging to Broncos’ left tackled Ryan Clady. ... read more

Stick-on patch collects, analyzes and wirelessly transmits a variety of health metrics

The electronic skin offers several improvements over existing trackers, including greater flexibility, smaller size, and the ability to stick the self-adhesive patch—which is ... including continuous ... read more

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A soft, wearable microfluidic device for the capture, storage, and colorimetric sensing of sweat

1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. 2 Department of Mechanical Engineer... read more

What's the Future of the American Dream?

We're asking our guests and our viewers what is their vision for the future of the American Dream — and how we can achieve those visions. View a sample below and then tell us your vision for the futur... read more

Buzz Aldrin Speaks Out: Forget the Moon, Let's Head to Mars

As the second man to ever walk on the moon (he stepped out of the lunar module about 15 minutes after Neil Armstrong), Buzz Aldrin knows a little something about space exploration, about bold ambition... read more

Cuba Gooding Jr. and David Oyelowo rediscover 'Red Tails' history

Editor's note: David Oyelowo plays Joe "Lightning" Little in the film "Red Tails." He was raised in England and Nigeria and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He was the first bl... read more

You Have to See This Weekend's Best Amazon Deals

As a recurring feature, our team combs the Web and shares some amazing Amazon deals we’ve turned up. Here’s what caught our eye today, November 12. Mental Floss has affiliate relationships with certai... read more