New innovations, tattoo of monitoring the sweat for athletes

Tattoos that can monitor the sweat

CALIFORNIA - The team of researchers from the University of California-San Diego in the United States (U.S.) is now middle exploring a new type of tattoo that can monitor the amount of sweat a person. This contemporary tattoo has a sensor on the surface of the skin it is functioning as a detector of sweat.

In the journal Analytical Chemistry, the researchers explain that thin strip-shaped tattoo that is can track the balance of chemical constituents. They argued this tool is very suitable for athletes to measure the extent to which of their physical activity.

Sweat production not be separated from a person's body fluid lactate. As for the lactate is itself a chemical compound that is produced from the working muscles.

Increasingly many the body produces lactate, then increasingly swift the grains of sweat they produce. Technological innovation in this tattoo is very ideal used for athletes, because it can help them in monitoring the health of its metabolism.

Currently, lactate levels in a person's body is still measured through blood samples. It is believed to be less efficient, because not infrequently the athletes required for break during a few hours before taken the blood sample it.

Tattoos tech is planned will commercialized by an independent company, Electrozyme in order that the general public can use it.