On Ephemerality

'Melt in the body' electronics devised
James Gallagher, 27 September 2012

(the 'E' is for Ephemerality)

Ultra-thin electronics that dissolve inside the body have been devised by scientists in the US and could be used for a range of medical roles.

The components are made of silicon and magnesium oxide, and placed in a protective layer of silk.

It is part of a field termed "transient electronics" and comes from researchers who have already developed "electronic tattoos" - sensors that bend and stretch with the skin.

They described their vanishing devices as the "polar opposite" of traditional electronics, which are built to be stable and to last.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19737125


POST SCRIPT:
did someone say ephemerality?
Banana Art, by Phil Hansen:

correction: This leopard banana is by Filiz Kusan

Filiz Kusan

and so's this, very nice..not a banana

Filiz Kusan

On Photography, The Collective, and Street Art

C215, talkin bout street art:

I usually don't like to paint on blank surfaces and prefer to paint on neglected surfaces with a maximum of layers of posters, tags or advertising...then we can feel the time and interaction with people who passed by and left a sign on the wall, a visual history we've all set up together: if street art exists, it would be precisely this collective visual poetry of human beings, and not only artists, that are gathering together in the streets, constantly evolving. The city is the real street artist, not you alone. Never. And at the end, you need again someone else to open their eyes and put the stress on this poetry including your work. Street photographers are a very big part of the process.

juxtapoz nov 2011 no 130 p85