one step closer to practical wearable computers

We have all seen the images of the wearable computer in the eighties and nineties, if these things were capable of anything it was making you look like a freak.

The wearable computer has benefits of course but only if it really is wearable, so it has to be either beautiful and ultra light or invisible and ultra light.

The second option has come a step closer when at a recent conference in Brussels (Belgium), technologists from IMEC presented a 3D integration process enabling flexible electronic systems with a thickness of less than 60 micrometer. This new ultra-thin chip technology allows integrating complete systems in conventional low-cost flex substrate. This paves the way to low-cost, unobtrusive wearable electronics.













IMEC’s flexible wireless monitoring system for vital body parameters with embedded microcontroller chip.

So the day may come soon where the wearable computer is finally here, comfortable to carry and use. Now we just need a wearable interface to the internet.

more information at the IMEC site