Nokia Applies For Vibrating Tattoo Patent

New submitter CanHasDIY writes "Tired of waiting for the Pip-Boy or Omni-Tool to be invented? Never fear! Nokia is developing the basic technology needed to make your dreams a reality: haptic-feedback tattoos. According to the patent application, Nokia is proposing 'a material attachable to skin, the material capable of detecting a magnetic field and transferring a perceivable stimulus to the skin, wherein the perceivable stimulus relates to the magnetic field.' Basically, the process is the same as for normal tattooing; the difference is in the ferromagnetic ink. Kind of brings new meaning to the term 'embedded device,' doesn't it?"

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Re:I wonder what a MRI would feel like

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And it is one of the benefits of free universal healthcare; when it is necessary with regular checkups, even if expensive, there's no health insurance company there to complain.

The downside, of course, is that you pay for it in higher taxes. And for another one for each member of the out-of-work family down the street.

Then when it gets too expansive for the government to afford, they try to patch it by reducing services. Like with cancer surgery waiting list time longer than the time it takes the cancer to become inoperable. Or decision-making committees deciding who is old and sick enough that it makes financial sense to let them die and use the resources for people still young and productive.

Of course once the healthcare is single-payer there's no alternative to go to. If the "death panel" says you die, you die.

(Yes, the original Obamacare legislation didn't have "death panels". They were in a companion bill passed around the same time.)