The breakthrough creation of flexible silicon chips could potentially unlock a number of radical uses, including wearable IT, brain implants and heart monitors. The uses are possibly limitless.
This could allow the integration of electronics in a variety of ways in the human body - but the human body does not have the shape of a silicon wafer. Completely integrated, extremely bendable circuits have been talked about for many years but have not been demonstrated before...until now.
The slim line circuits, like conventional chips, are made of sandwiches of multiple materials to form the wires and different components. The depth and relative position of the different layers, including chromium, gold and silicon, was crucial and the key to unlocking this technology.
No doubt commercial uses will begin to emerge in the coming years...subcutaneous mobile communications anyone? Embedded streaming mp3 via Wi-Fi? Web portal access projected internally on your retina? Cyborg Ninja indeed....
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