{"id":591,"date":"2010-04-11T14:53:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T21:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=591"},"modified":"2010-04-11T14:53:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T21:53:41","slug":"designing-for-the-epidermis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Designing for the epidermis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creating an embedded monitoring system to for personal health.<\/p>\n<p>User may customize balance\/ratio of nutrients and system vitals to fit his or her needs.  For example, a body builder may need specific protein levels and electrolytes, whereas the pregnant user may want to monitor toxins, anitbodies, potential illness, minerals, etc, for heathy fetal development.<\/p>\n<p>Preggers: Vitamin B-9.  Synthesize and repair DNA.  Cell division and cell growth.<\/p>\n<p>Microarray of repurposed bacterial designed for biological feedback.  Each bacterial &#8220;pixel&#8221; corresponds to a metabolic condition and and visually represents its value through color saturation.  Matrix snapshots are taken at a steady rate, enabling a system-wide report over time.  This type of monitoring leads to a heightened awareness that would take part in everyday choices, including but not limited to: excercise, diet, sleep, supplements, habitat, etc.<\/p>\n<p>A matrix approach would lend itself as a traditional data chart similar to a QR code.<\/p>\n<p>Another visual option is to use the bacteria as logic to augment the appearance of a tattooed scene. \u00a0The circuit is similar to that being developed by Philips. \u00a0The art is personalized, while details are represented in accordance with metabolic readings. \u00a0Users may assign specific chemical cues to have more dramatic alerts on their skin. \u00a0For instance, a\u00a0diabetic may correlate insulin levels to a highly reactive visualization, perhaps a large tattooed region turning red.<\/p>\n<p>For confidential monitoring, one may embed wireless chip into skin and couple to personal device. \u00a0The transmission would be encrypted en route to user and optionally to physician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating an embedded monitoring system to for personal health. User may customize balance\/ratio of nutrients and system vitals to fit his or her needs. For example, a body builder may need specific protein levels and electrolytes, whereas the pregnant user may want to monitor toxins, anitbodies, potential illness, minerals, etc, for heathy fetal development. Preggers: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-frontiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}