Appendage mountable electronic devices conformable to surfaces

This invention describes a flexible glove or finger-tube designed to fit snugly on a body part. It has tiny electronic sensors or actuators embedded within its stretchy material, allowing it to measure body signals or interact with the skin. The design ensures it maintains full functionality even if it's turned inside out, providing reliable contact with the body.

Why it matters: The reliability and manufacturability of truly stretchable and flexible electronic arrays have advanced considerably since 2018. This progress in materials science and microfabrication now makes the robust "surface flipping" and conformal contact aspects of such instrumented gloves more practically achievable for medical or robotic applications.

Status: Not in forceListed as no longer active. The specific reason is not in the record we hold.
How hard to build: SpecializedFlexible electronics, stretchable materials, microfabrication

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