Is It a Biomedical Advancement?

"I think that that kind of technology is ultimately going to be used for other things than what it's being developed for," she says. "It has tremendous positive potential, but also tremendous unintended negative consequences as well." She worries about the neurotic patients who are going to be using it constantly monitoring their heart rate and then contacting their doctor every time they have it. But just the technology itself, having flexible electronics and sensors, you know, could have a lot of great applications.