The spray-on skin gun is simply amazing technology. It literally sprays new skin cells onto burn victims to regrow skin. Old methods like skin grafts take weeks and months to heal, the skin gun only needs a little over an hour.
Gaping battlefield flesh wounds that take off more than 4 cm if skin can’t heal without aid, so researchers at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine created a fantastical system that literally prints skin on demand.
Nothing like getting a hot steam blast to the face whenever you demand it. Now you can clean out your filthy pores with ‘ion-charged nano-particles’ that a normal pot of boiling water simply can’t provide. Supposedly.
There are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there’s the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It’s a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer.
A hapless human basks in the glow of the ReGen HUMAN INCINERATOR 3000 skin treatment system, which is said to “rejuvenate” skin using high-intensity blue and red LED lights. More at [io9]
These Japanese masks don’t only tighten and make your pores microscopic, they also turn it into a très romantic activity with your partner. Creepily reminscent of Jason in Friday the 13th, they provide ample anonymity for psychotic, law-breaking fun as well. Instead of running around with a chainsaw though, robbing a bank might just be more useful because financial bankruptcy is just no fun. Only problem with these masks is you don’t really know what to tell the cops about the person behind the pink mask, holding up the bank teller in San Francisco, do you? [TOKYO MANGO]
Great Scott! It looks like the ubiquitous LED may be becoming even more of a wondergadget, since a group of German researchers are saying light from LEDs may actually be able to smooth away skin wrinkles. Their study, due for publication soon, showed that exposure to high-intensity light from LEDs daily for several weeks resulted in “rejuvenated skin,” and “reduced wrinkle levels.”
Solar panels are great, don’t get me wrong, and the technology still has plenty of room to improve. But today, they still only capture about 20% of the energy coming from light…and there’s a young, promising challenger on the horizon. The technology is called a nanoantenna skin. It can suck 92% of the energy from infrared light (in theoretical simulations, about 80% in early lab testing). And because it doesn’t simply collect energy from the visible light spectrum, it even can harness the Earth’s solar energy it stores during the day and radiates at night.
