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Digital Tattoo Interface Turns Your Skin Into A Display

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  1. Rocket River

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    Are u ready 4 this? - Rocket River

    http://gizmodo.com/5401714/digital-tattoo-interface-turns-your-skin-into-a-display

    There are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there's the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It's a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer.

    As great as it seems, this concept is seriously creepy because it powers itself by converting the glucose and oxygen found in blood into electricity. Though somehow getting your blood sucked by a gadget is worth it for the endless potential applications. I'd probably just end up using it to moderate comments, but what would you do first with your implant? [Core77 via Geekologie]

    This week, Gizmodo is exploring the enhanced human future in a segment we call This Cyborg Life. It's about what happens when we treat our body less as a sacred object and more as what it is: Nature's ultimate machine.
     
    #1 Rocket River, Nov 14, 2009
  2. IROC it

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    [​IMG]
    Creepy
     
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  3. Yonkers

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    Sweet. Now I can have barbed wire one week and tribal the next. Douche-tastic.
     
    #3 Yonkers, Nov 15, 2009
  4. StaticC4

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    Or Barbed Wire AND Tribal then add a huge Dragon on your back too! Now that's Douche-tastic.
     
    #4 StaticC4, Nov 15, 2009
  5. BrooksBall

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    No. Just no.
     
    #5 BrooksBall, Nov 15, 2009
  6. lpbman

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    Hooray for glow in the dark nipples!
     
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  7. lpbman

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    I want an iphone built into an inductively charged cochlear implant to boot.

    And glow in the dark nipples.
     
    #7 lpbman, Nov 15, 2009
  8. Ottomaton

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    I would never get a normal tattoo.

    I would get one of these without second though. Especially if you could embed a touch sensitivity feature like in the photo. You could embed a pop-up cell phone key pad or QWERTY keyboard and some sort of bluetooth/wireless internet and run all sorts of functions. Maybe wire something directly in the hippocampus memory pathways so I can "remember" facts and figures from the internet and Wikipedia as I need them.
     
    #8 Ottomaton, Nov 15, 2009
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    taking tests in school would be much easier...
     
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  10. Invisible Fan

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    From tip calculator to herpes monitor, the possibilities are endlesS!
     
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  11. hjg877

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    I wanna be my own wifi hot spot. That's bound to attract women.

    I'd let them sit next to me as long as they want. Maybe I could also find a way to convert my piss to latte and charge $4 a cup (whipped cream topping no extra charge).
     
    #11 hjg877, Nov 15, 2009
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  13. Creepy Crawl

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    Alrighty then.....

    I liked this quote from the comments section.

     
    #13 Creepy Crawl, Nov 15, 2009
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    Where would you put this QWERTY keyboard so that it would be convenient to use?
     
    #14 pmac, Nov 15, 2009
  15. Creepy Crawl

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    Its seems like all the "futuristic" stuff you used to see in Sci-Fi movies, and movies about the future is coming true....crazy stuff.
     
    #15 Creepy Crawl, Nov 15, 2009
  16. CrazyDave

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    freaky display under the skin that runs off of your blood? What could go wrong?
     
    #16 CrazyDave, Nov 15, 2009
  17. Rocket River

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    That was my thoughts. Scary stuff.
    I wonder how long before whatever is converting the gluclode to energy
    will be advertised as some kind of weightloss thing.

    Rocket River
     
    #17 Rocket River, Nov 15, 2009
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