BENDY, stretchable computer chips have been made that could one day allow gadgets to be integrated with clothing, or even take electronics to the surface of the human brain.
“We’d like to have an electric circuit that could wrap around part of the brain and detect signal patterns to predict the onset of a seizure before it happens,” says John Rogers of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, who led the team that developed the bendy chips.
“For a chip that can wrap around someone’s brain, you need stretchability”
Rogers and colleagues use a stamping technique to transfer ultrathin silicon ribbons,…
