Principal Investigator Patricia Maes
Project Website http://www.media.mit.edu/projects/d-Abyss/overview/
Can tattoos embrace technology in order to make the skin interactive?
The DermalAbyss project is the result of a collaboration between MIT researchers Katia Vega, Xin Liu, Viirj Kan and Nick Barry and Harvard Medical School researchers Ali Yetisen and Nan Jiang.
DermalAbyss is a proof-of-concept that presents a novel approach to bio-interfaces in which the body surface is rendered an interactive display. Traditional tattoo inks are replaced with biosensors whose colors change in response to variations in the interstitial fluid. It blends advances in biotechnology with traditional methods in tattoo artistry.
This is a research project, and there are currently no plans to develop Dermal Abyss as a product or to pursue clinical trials.