Circuits made for the body

Following our professor's lector regarding making technology interchangeable with human tissue I found this article. Stumbling around on Digg.com, there was one article that seemed to pertain directly to this topic. It was entitled "Bioelectronics: Silky Circuits" and it was securing the recent developments in flexible micro-circuits. The technology has been ported from an invention called electronic paper, which has ultra-thin circuitry. Apparently, this technology could be implanted into the skin to relay information to the brain. Ideas for this use could be giving the sensation of touch back to people who have lost their sense. The circuit matrix is implanted in matrix of silk, and once the silk dissolves, only the matrix is left in the system.

It is a very intriguing discovery and crosses the gap between organic matter and digital technology.

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=16056321&fsrc=scn/DG/pp/hp/tc05