Stretchable circuits move from lab demos to skin-worn products
Stretchable interconnects and island-bridge architectures are quietly appearing in shipping skin-worn devices — the bridge between printed electronics and medical-grade wearables.
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Wearables
Skin-worn electronics, stretchable circuits, medical patches and e-textiles — the body as the most demanding substrate electronics has ever printed on.
E-textiles forecasts can't agree if the market is $29 billion — or $3 billion. We checked the sums
Six analyst houses, a ten-fold spread, and a lesson in how to read any electronics forecast. We compare the numbers and find the definitional fault lines.
The printed battery finally ships — in the one place thinness beats everything
Skin patches made printed batteries a commercial reality. Inside the ~28% CAGR flexible-battery market and the disposable medical devices pulling it forward.
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