Skin-Based Display Screens From Nanotech Tattoos

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 19, 2009 @09:13PM from the your-epidermis-is-showing-a-movie dept.

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.

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Re:HHG2G did it! by DrgnDancer · 2009-04-20 03:27 · Score: 3, Informative

The author later called it "The Increasingly Misnamed Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy"

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