Skin-Based Display Screens From Nanotech Tattoos 200
destinyland writes "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York is developing flexible nanotubes
inserted under the skin to create a handheld display — inside your hand. They wirelessly receive data and display reminders and text messages, and the concept has also been broadened to suggest endlessly programmable digital tattoos, while Netherlands-based Royal Philips Electronics is also exploring the concept of
the body as 'a platform for electronics and interactive skin technologies'." That middle link is quite old, but is still loaded with interesting links.
Allright!! (Score:4, Funny)
This nice sounds nice (Score:5, Funny)
well........ (Score:5, Funny)
A Cautionary Note (Score:5, Funny)
If programmable digital tattoos catch on, it might be a good idea if the data feed in your "handheld display" was used to ensure that the name in your tattoo matches the name of the person you're with.
Re:Allright!! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:well........ (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This nice sounds nice (Score:3, Funny)
Hands-on (Score:3, Funny)
Where can I get some hands-on experience with this technology?
Re:Allright!! (Score:2, Funny)
The one time I forget to preview...
I've been wanting this for a... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This nice sounds nice (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ohhh... can you imagine the hack possibilities (Score:4, Funny)
Oh the possibilities
- Wash me ...
- Kick me
- Buy cheap v1agr4
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- Profit!
Re:Allright!! (Score:5, Funny)
The possibilities for hacking other people's tattoos are frightening. You can hardly go around keeping a continuous watch on them, especially on your back. Imagine going to work at school labelled "Crack $5/bag".
Re:I've been wanting this for a... (Score:2, Funny)
Um, like a bracelet?
Re:Ohhh... can you imagine the hack possibilities (Score:2, Funny)
This could actually bring a whole new meaning to STD.
Re:I've been wanting this for a... (Score:1, Funny)
I've got two. They're called 'wrists'.
Awesome tech.
Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Allright!! (Score:5, Funny)
And then you make sure the tattoo display device renders the sanitized html correctly. (for all those n00bs who thought this went off-topic)
Re:Allright!! (Score:4, Funny)
Hmm....shoot, I'll be we could transform the DEA into a group called sandmen, you know, just in case you decided to 'run' and not turn yourself in for sleep.
Re:Allright!! (Score:3, Funny)
The one thing I hate about typing (especially when programming), is how many times I have to hit that god damn shit key. My left little finger starts to hurt a lot when I've been programming for a while.
Re:This nice sounds nice (Score:5, Funny)
Scares the living shit out of you the first few times!
Re:Allright!! (Score:3, Funny)
Well, my keyboard doesn't have a shit key. I understand that you wouldn't want to touch that quite often. Maybe you should get one with a shift key instead. :-)
BTW, I never understood what problems people have with pressing shift. I don't have any problems with it (not even when writing German, where there are a lot of upper case letters). OTOH, on German keyboards, the [ and ] characters are some of the hardest characters to type: You have to press, at the same time, the AltGr key (on US keyboards there's the right Alt key at that position) and the keys 8 resp. 9.
Voice command? (Score:5, Funny)
If they could figure out a voice-command interface to this, "Talk to the hand" could get a whole new meaning.
Re:This nice sounds nice (Score:5, Funny)
Are you joking? A tattoo hurts a lot less than regular high school beatings or unrequited love.
Re:Camouflage (Score:2, Funny)
Implant this under all exposed skin and a solider could have camouflage patterns turned on/off and changed for the terrain.
I can only imagine the stories...
"So there I was in the women's shower room..."
Re:Just think.... (Score:3, Funny)
So, you're going to project a naked body on a naked body?
Or are you going to render certain acts on certain patches of skin to simulate the experience? But it would be only possible by brutally handled and have a sheet of this material inserted on that patch of skin. As I suspect, that part of the sheet should be flexible as well if you would want to try to simulate a certain experience..
What lenghts teen nerds go to simulate a certain experience. Invest that effort in spacetravel of some sort and stop watching pornography and thinking of ways to come closer to the "real experience virtually". :)
Although, nerd hornyness has brought alot of innovation. We should breed farms of horny nerds, and put "challenges" in front of their porn-consumption, like a certain cypher for access or a certain patternrecognition to be hacked. Worldhunger would be solved overnight and we would have instant singularity.
Ni-Go-Zeero-Ichi (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good luck at the airport (Score:2, Funny)
Good luck with that the next time you're at the security check at the airport. Pacemakers they know about, but with people getting withheld due to t-shirts with *images* of electronics, this thing is just asking for trouble.
I was at the airport with one of those t-shirts with a working clock on it. I boarded with no problems, but as they were to take off, (i am not making this up) they announced: "Please turn off all mobile phones, laptops and t-shirts"
Re:Immunse systems do not like foreign objects. (Score:3, Funny)
I suspect that rejection or attack by your mother would be the issue here.
Re:Allright!! (Score:1, Funny)
I don't even see the code anymore. I just see blonde, brunette, redhead........ err, italic, bold, & break.
Re:This nice sounds nice (Score:1, Funny)
Or most requited love..