Nokia Applies For Vibrating Tattoo Patent

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @03:39AM from the everything-has-been-invented dept.

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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I wonder what a MRI would feel like by FictionPimp · 2012-03-21 03:41 · Score: 5, Insightful

Subject says it all.
It's all nice and fine by Hentes · 2012-03-21 03:41 · Score: 4, Insightful

until you have to take an MRI.
rule 34 by godrik · 2012-03-21 03:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Am I the only one to immediately think of how to apply rule 34 to it?
1. Re:rule 34 by GameboyRMH · 2012-03-21 03:50 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  I can see some applications in wireless teledildonics. Installation would suck though...
  
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Not all that novel... by grnbrg · 2012-03-21 04:08 · Score: 3, Informative

People have been implanting magnetic stuff for a while...
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/news/2006/06/71087