DARPA's been hard at work on dissolvable, biodegradable electronics for some time now, but when they were introduced last September, the primary focus was for medical applications. Judging by an event DARPA is holding next month, however, it looks like the agency is unsurprisingly thinking about how this technology can be applied to the military. DARPA is hoping to develop "transient electronics," systems that are "capable of physically disappearing in a controlled, triggerable manner," that function similarly to the "commercial-off-the-shelf" systems currently used.
The benefit to the military is twofold — DARPA believes it is "nearly impossible" to both track and recover all of the electronic microsystems the military distributes,...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/28/3926248/darpa-working-on-dissolvable-transient-electronics
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