{"id":145679,"date":"2025-05-31T02:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T02:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145679\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T02:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T02:34:12","slug":"track-your-mental-stress-with-a-forehead-e-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145679\/","title":{"rendered":"Track your mental stress&#8230; with a forehead e-tattoo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted May 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Track your mental stress&#8230; with a forehead e-tattoo?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">That\u2019s what researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are proposing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/device\/fulltext\/S2666-9986(25)00094-8?_returnURL=https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2666998625000948?showall%3Dtrue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this paper published in Device<\/a>. In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/electronic-tattoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IEEE Spectrum<\/a>, co-author Nanshu Lu says it\u2019s meant to help people in \u201chigh-stakes, high-demand\u201d jobs monitor their stress in real-time. The e-tattoo measures brainwaves and eye movements to decode mental workloads to help prevent people in stressful jobs from reaching a breaking point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Obviously, this is research and not an actual thing yet \u2014 but it sure does look cyberpunk.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"kqz8fh1\" href=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/DSC00322.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" data-pswp-height=\"4000\" data-pswp-width=\"6000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img alt=\"Front on view of man staring straight forward while wearing electrodes on his forehead and face\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"x271pn0\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8+R8AAtcB6oaHtZcAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSC00322.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Nanshu Lu \/ University of Texas Austin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted May 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM UTC Track your mental stress&#8230; with a forehead e-tattoo? That\u2019s what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[1685,105,218,70,326,16,15,8260],"class_list":{"0":"post-145679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wearable"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114600113915834948","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}