New smart bandages create ‘cyber skin’ over wounds

Caltech researchers, working in collaboration with the USC Keck School of Medicine, have created a new type of smart bandage that can help improve the treatment of chronic wounds. The advanced bandages can automatically monitor and respond to the changes within the wounds.

This provides real-time data and helps deliver updated treatments as needed. The researchers describe the bandages as “cyber skin,” allowing the wound to receive more improved treatment than it could through regular bandages.