These flashing digits that you see above on your right happen to be a proof of concept for a new electronic skin. Theoretically speaking, these “e-skins” could eventually see action in a wide range of things, including monitoring vital signs as well as making wearable electronics to be a whole lot more viable than what they are at this point in time.
With smart skins covering a wide ground from planes to humans, the whole point of this particular effort is to compress electronic sensors into an extremely super-thin and yet very flexible material, in a way where it is so thin as well as flexible, the user will be able to have it on their skins in the same manner as that of a temporary tattoo. It would be interesting to see how much farther they can stretch (no pun intended) the functionality of such electronic tattoos.