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Skin-Based Display Screens From Nanotech Tattoos
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.
Finally a way to change my tattoo every time i feel like it, and get rid of my gf's complaints that she doesn't want me to have more tattoos.
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice - Grey's Law
but most Geeks don't have a high pain threshold.
Its only a matter of time before someone figures out how to get porn on it.
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.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Where can I get some hands-on experience with this technology?
wristwatch without the watch, for a long time now.
Oh the possibilities
- Wash me ...
- Kick me
- Buy cheap v1agr4
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- Profit!
This could actually bring a whole new meaning to STD.
"I can't wait until the tattoos on Amy's butt hear about this!"
If they could figure out a voice-command interface to this, "Talk to the hand" could get a whole new meaning.
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..."
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
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.
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
One step closer to Ghost in the Shell's brain hacking becoming an everyday reality!
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"
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I suspect that rejection or attack by your mother would be the issue here.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!