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Motorola Patent Uses Neck Tattoo As Microphone
nk497 writes "A Motorola Mobility patent application proposes using an 'electronic skin tattoo' as a smartphone microphone and wireless transceiver. The temporary tattoo would also include a 'power supply configured to receive energizing signals from a personal area network,'
according to the filing with the US Patent and Trademark Office. It would be applied to 'a throat region of a body' — otherwise known as the neck. Motorola thinks the technology would be ideal for noisy environments, such as large stadiums and busy streets, or in emergency situations."
Peter F. Hamilton's OCTattos from his Commonwealth Saga become reality.
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This message was not sent from an iPhone because Peter Sellers really was a deviated prevert without a dime for the call
They use a tramp stamp as a speaker.
. . . neckbeards . . .
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Time to learn to type with my dick.
Table-ized A.I.
Without a working model, all they have is words and diagrams on paper that might not work in practice. But that piece of paper gives them the right to sue somebody else who implements the concept and makes it work.
They need to bring back the working model requirement. If there is no working model, grant the patent provisionally. Don't let the patent holder sue before they have a working model, and if they don't build a working model by a specific deadline (say 5 years) the patent goes up for auction, with proceeds going to the patent owner. Or they can sell the patent before the 5 years are up. The new owner must have a working model before they can sue.
That way inventors can still get paid for a useful invention even if they don't have the resources to build the working model themselves.
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There is inferior bacteria on the interior of your posterior.
I.e. one where they have at least kinda-sorta-maybe some prototype, or is it one of those that are currently so en vogue, i.e. one of the kind that some markedroid had too much coke one day and came to the revelation that this would be just too cool and we should patent it before someone else does?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
When people can't connect to facebook, I guess
There's not much else to say.
Why is it sick?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throat_microphone
without a product is pretty useless.. I could watch the last 20 yrs worth of sci-fi and patent a crap load of ideas with theoretical concepts, but, no implementation means nothing.
The technology might have been envisioned artistically by others, but the actual mechanics of such system is certainly patent worthy.
How would this affect your Essence rating?
I mean, as a magic user I'm conflicted. The spirits like tattoos but not so much cyberware, and this sounds like both.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
Modern speech codecs can be much more noise-tolerant now (working purely in the frequency domain) so throat mics might not have have much of a future anyway I think.
On it except for one very brief mention in the 2nd to last paragraph unlike The Register article calling it a Google patent... which since they own Motorola, it is. Slippery slopes indeed. From the article I'm linking, the patent filing .
This should be mandatory for all politicians, preists, police, and running for office candidates.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
It would be applied to 'a throat region of a body' — otherwise known as the neck
...the throat is just part of the neck. The terms aren't synonymous.
I don't think you'll get paid unless you include the spam link.
The key word here is Patent APPLICATION. A very small percentage of patent applications are actually approved by the USPTO.
What is next... Earrings ? but because of previous art I wonder if the "patent" is void here.
With earrings all will looks like "Pirates of the wifi's neighbors in deep web on route of silk road"
How on earth did this get +2 "Interesting"? The ravings of a madman (Really! No mixed-fibre clothing! No shellfish! No shaving of any part of the head! And Heathens are perfectly fine to buy as slaves. And let's not forget "An eye for an eye") whose ideas of morality and correctness were way out of line when the "Good Book" was written (4-legged insects are unclean! As is pretty much everything else, ever!) has precisely what bearing on our lives?
If you want to live by the rules Leviticus (and most of the rest of the Old Testament) dictates, do feel free. I'm sure such draconian dictates will ensure you die an early death as you struggle to deal with impossible to live up to standards, "Original Sin", and pre-medieval healthcare (Really! Even Obamacare is better than the crap in Leviticus for dealing with illness!).
Of course, there is always the possibility that you are merely trying to force your ideals down everyone else's throat, and grabbing the very first passage from the very worst parts of John's Book of Ravings that enables you to take a supposedly pious and "Enlightened" stance on something that has been socially acceptable since at least 800BC.
Or you're a troll, using a quasi-religious stance to get a rise out of the /. community. In which case, well done. You got me.
iSkin
Table-ized A.I.
How about going through Sci-Fi books and patenting EVERYTHING left and right - androids to zappers?
And just letting them run out.
Most of those things won't be nowhere near a working model for centuries - and should they one day be invented they'd automagically be in public domain due to their patents having already run out.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Yeah jeez who'd a thought of embedding a micro piezo element in ink, I'm so overwhelmed, aren't they the company that invented fire as well?
Perhaps I should patent the middle finger as a communications device and give them a call...
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Leviticus_19