Top TechTop Tech #89: Zapped Skin, Conductive Clothing, Floating Display
Important innovations in science and technology, every day
By Paul Worthington
Thursday’s Top Tech:
• Zapped skin rejuvenates
• Conductive clothing
• Touchable floating 3D display
Zapped skin rejuvenates
Can some current make you look and feel better? New work suggest a pulsed electric field may rejuvenate your skin’s function and appearance.
Tel Aviv University and Harvard Medical School researchers stimulated tissue to generate new skin growth. This produced scarless skin rejuvenation “and may revolutionize the treatment of degenerative skin diseases,” says a report in Nature. The process “may jumpstart the secretion of new collagen and capillaries in problematic skin areas.”
Conductive clothing
New conductive ink can be printed on cloth, and may enable electronic apparel.
Developed at the University of Tokyo researchers, the new textiles technique could lead to underwear that measures your heart rate, muscle contraction, and other biological indicators.
The elastic conducting ink is printed on textiles in a single step.
Touchable floating 3D display
Fast laser pulses can create a 3D display in midair — made of plasma you can touch.
Lasers and plasma can be dangerous — but at the University of Tsukuba, they found a femtosecond laser pulse (one millionth of one billionth of one second) “doesn’t result in any appreciable skin damage…”
They’re calling it the “Fairy Lights” display.
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