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.

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Re:Allright!!

[maxwell demon]

Yes, bbcode is one of the most useless inventions. After all, it's just selected HTML tags written with different brackets. I cannot see the advantage of writing [i] instead of <i> (or even the usually more correct <em>)

OT: Speeding

[Simon Brooke]

Sorry, about this, but your .sig just angers me:

Exceeding the appropriate speed for conditions gets you killed.

It doesn't, that's the problem. Modern cars are exceedingly good at protecting their drivers in head-on collisions. If you exceed the appropriate speed for conditions you will almost certainly not be killed. Someone else will be killed. Some pedestrian, or cyclist, innocently minding their own business and obeying all the rules of the road will be killed. Or someone turning out of a junction with plenty of time to not impede anyone driving a legal speed, whom you hit broadside on. They get killed. You don't.

If seatbelts and airbags and crumple zones were banned, if every car had a rigid steel spike sticking out of the middle of the steering wheel, then speeding would become a self limiting problem; Darwin would take care of it for us. The problem with the 'safety' features on our cars is that they make the wrong person safe - the idiot behind the wheel, not the person he hits.

Exceeding the appropriate speed for the conditions is not quite as bad a crime as premeditated murder... but the difference is small. And no-one is as good a driver as they think they are.