Make patch monitors heart health

It is a small mobile device, whose mechanism is completely invisible, as it has a similar to human skin, which is able to warn the user if you are having heart problems at this moment look.
This invention has been devised by a team of researchers from the Universities of Northwestern and Illinois at Urbana-Champagin (USA) according to study published in Nature Communications.

The way to alert the user of any problems relating to heart health is very simple: the patch simply changes color. The device uses three thousand 600 liquid crystals that detect body heat thereby controlling the potential problems. Thus, the device also could be used to warn of dry skin, for example.

"One can imagine the cosmetic companies interested in the ability to measure the dry skin of a portable and non-invasive. This is the first device of its kind," said Yonggang Huang, co-author of the study, the ChiguireBipolar site. is

Another of the characteristics that make this patch is that the skin can be left 24 hours a day, is wireless and stretches and shrinks while the natural skin of the user, so it is not uncomfortable. The skin patch may detect the flow of blood and the rate of hydration of the skin. Then, an algorithm interprets these results and shows that reveals a color temperature distribution of the skin in that area in less than 30 seconds.