Synthetic, Self-Healing Skin

A team of researchers at Stanford created the first synthetic material that is both self-healing at room temperature and sensitive to touch. Other self-repairing synthetic materials have been made before, but this is the first one to do so at room temperature and be able to do it multiple times.

This could easily be applied to people who have lost limbs and require prosthetics. People who have lost a hand could use an enhanced prosthetic that uses this new "skin" to actually have a sense of touch!

How else could this new synthetic skin be applied?

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Synthetic, Self-Healing Skin That's Sensitive To The Touch

Fuck you and fuck all the things you post.
Make that Technological Advancement section or whatever already

This idea sounds amazing, imagine all those soldiers that come back from war and maybe have a piece of skin burnt. Imagine all the happiness this could bring to them or anyone with a skin problem, could it be used as a cure in some way to skin cancer?

Daniel said:

f*ck you and f*ck all the things you post.
Make that Technological Advancement section or whatever already

This idea sounds amazing, imagine all those soldiers that come back from war and maybe have a piece of skin burnt. Imagine all the happiness this could bring to them or anyone with a skin problem, could it be used as a cure in some way to skin cancer?

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Oh wow, I didn't even think of it like that. That is a good idea, Daniel. I was thinking of using this "skin" for other objects such as robots and prosthetic limbs. I didn't think about actually applying it in a way of it actually becoming a person's "skin".

Now I am even more curious to see where this will go in the future.

Nice post, I think something like this has amazing potential which could actually really improve people's life's.

@glen wheres the technology section deathcrow suggested? ):

another awesome story DeathCrow, i used to read a lot of stuff like this, maybe ill post a few at work when im bored

Maybe if they get any further with controlling android robots with people's brains, then they can create the android robots with this touch-sensitive skin. If the android robot touched something, the signals could somehow go back to your brain causing the same sensation you normally experience if you were to touch something.

It would be just like the movie surrogates.....kind of.