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Dynamic tattoos promise to warn wearers of health threats

  • Written by Carson J Bruns, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
imageIn the not-too-distant future, tattoos could become medical diagnostic devices as well as body art.LightFieldStudios/iStock via Getty Images

In the sci-fi novel “The Diamond Age” by Neal Stephenson, body art has evolved into “constantly shifting mediatronic tattoos” – in-skin displays powered by nanotech robopigments....

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