Realism is essential to our understanding of the life and reality of a particular era. This article explores the meanings and feeling of life in contemporary China, through examining three indie games. Inspired by real issues, these games function as heterotopias that provide new perspectives for players to reflect on reality from alternative perspectives.
Abstract Whether for organic life or intelligent machines (robots, Actuators), skin plays an important role as a barrier and sensor, and a lot of research is centered on making multifunctional skins. Here, the authors report an electronic skin with high stretchability, excellent mechanical sensing, and biochemical detection capabilities obtained by combining photonic crystals and sponge‐like filled liquid metal (LM)–polyurethane (PU)–spidroin (SP) composite materials. Inspired by geckos and mussels, a micropillar array is designed and coated with polydopamine to synergistically improve adhesion. P(MMA‐BA) elastic copolymer nanoparticles (are assembled into a photonic crystal pattern to endow electronic skin biochemical detection capabilities. The regionalization of the photonic crystal pattern allows the electronic skin to detect multiple target compounds simultaneously. The base material is an LM–PU–SP composite material with excellent stretchability and pressure sensitivity and is used for motion monitoring and tactile sensing. It is envisioned that this multifunctional electronic skin can be attached to animal skins for health monitoring to facilitate the diagnosis of metabolic diseases and wound inflammation. Alternatively, electronic skins can be attached to robots and soft robots for the collection of samples from heavily polluted areas, to obtain real‐time feedback information during the collection process.
Wearable biosensors are gaining tremendous interest in the clinical and biological medical fields for their potential in providing patients with real-time diagnostic tools and time-sensitive information, non-invasive measurements of biochemical markers distributed in body fluids throughout the body. These sensors replace part of the equipment that can only be installed in hospitals and become a new choice for assessing human health. Herein, critical perspectives are put forward regarding wearable sensors in the future digital health monitoring industry. Moreover, the materials and processing technologies involved have also been discussed in recent years, along with their monitoring schemes and system-level integration technologies. Finally, the probability of wearable sensors being used in early disease detection is considerable. Thus, despite potential challenges, it is still quite promising for wearable sensors to come into production.
A silk wearable patch with electronic and microfluidics systems was fabricated by 3D printing methods. The self-healing and flexible patch was used as a sensitive biochemical and physiological wearable sensor.
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