A wireless skin patch that delivers medicine on demand

[Geekberry]

Scientists at the University of North Carolina have created a skin patch that can receive commands from a smartphone and release medication when needed.

The thin, gentle patch has many small microneedles filled with various medicines. A wireless signal heats up each microneedle, making their gold coating break apart and release the drugs onto the …

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[Cruslan]

There are some commercially available solutions like insulin pumps that embedded to who patients has Type one Diabetes. Those devices injects required insulin on demand. But they are thick and bulky, those thin devices can improve daily life that who people has chronic ilnesses and requires constant medicine/drug usage.