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If smartwatches and fitness trackers are the best we can do when it comes to wearables, stop the planet, I want off. Jupiter looks better anyway. But wait, I can turn my skin into an actual LED display? Okay fine, I’ll stay, because that sounds awesome.
Developed by researchers in Tokyo, Japan, these super-flexible electronic displays are the thinnest ever, at an incredible 3 micrometres thick. How thin is that, exactly? Oh about 0.003 mm – more than 13 times thinner than a human hair.
Not only are these the thinnest ever electronic displays embedded with minuscule LED lights that you can adhere to your skin, they’ve also overcome a bunch of really important challenges that made the rest of them less-than-viable for the actual market.
This ‘electronic skin’ is also way more durable than other versions for another reason, as Adi Robertson reports for The Verge: “One of the major problems with these kinds of light films in the past … is the fact that they only lasted for a matter of hours when exposed to normal air.”