DIAL-A-TATTOO

[defrog]

ITEM [via Textually]: In future, yr phone will be tattooed on yr arm.

So says designer Jim Mielke, who entered this concept in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition.

The "Digital Tattoo Interface" wants to be a mobile phone / digital computer implanted in your arm and it should work with your own energy, i.e. your blood. It uses an e-ink display tattooed on your skin, a display that appears, disappears and changes itself according to what you need it to do.

Jim Mielke's device is also Bluetooth enabled and can detect blood disorders, alerting the owner when a health problem is discovered.

On the bright side, you’ll never lose a phone again.

It probably won’t catch on. On the other hand, the idea of electronic ink used for tattoos holds some interesting possibilities, and it’s probably only a matter of time before someone patents an interactive, reprogrammable tattoo, where instead of drawing a picture you just create a blank field, implant an RFID chip and then upload graphics from a smart card. So, for example, you could have a slide show of yr vacation pics playing on yr back.

Progress!

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Comments

[dinopollard.livejournal.com]

I think I would get one of those reprogrammable tattoo.