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Flexible LED Skin Implants Will Light You Up Like a Christmas Tree, Activate Light Sensitive Medication

Aside from looking really cool and making a fantastic excuse to get another body mod, these ultra-flexible LED skin implants will actually have a practical use in your medical future. The ultimate goal is that these 2.5 micrometers thick and 100 x 100 micrometers square LED arrays will one day be implanted in the human body as a way to monitor healing wounds and control the delivery of medication triggered by light in photodynamic drug therapy. Although the OLEDs used... Continue reading

Duct Tape Bandages

I don’t know if this is the work of a clever Photoshopper or if 3M really lost its fucking marbles. They’re bandages that use duct tape and are more durable and longer than your standard Band-Aid style. It probably hurts like a bitch ripping one of these off, so make sure you don’t shave your nuts anytime soon. Wouldn’t want to have to patch things up now, would we? Link [via]