Ghost in the Shell, here we come! :cool:
http://www.thestreet.com/blog/nokia-tattoo-will-alert-you-incoming-call-message
QuoteNokia Tattoo Will Alert You To An Incoming Call, Message
Patent Application Filed For Vibrating Notification Device
By Gary Krakow
Nokia has applied for a U.S. patent for a skin notification system that you have an incoming cellular phone call or message waiting.
In principle, the vibrating device will be designed with a special ink which is embedded with metallic particles. Once applied, the ink will be magnetized. When paired to your smartphone/tablet/etc. device (possibly via a super-miniature Bluetooth microchip) you will be alerted to the incoming message.
Not a great deal of detail is revealed in the patent application. But we're guessing that the tattoo would be able to vibrate/signal you, in different ways, for a voice call versus an instant message or email.
There is also not much discussion on how the special would be applied – whether something like a membrane on top of - or, maybe via a real tattoo placed into your skin.
Nokia has also applied for a second type of vibrating tattoo – but this one is only an on-skin patch – which could be easily removed whenever you wish.
The possibilities are mind numbing.
Who knows? The next step could be an implant to eliminate your smartphone hardware all together.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 23, 2012, 02:54:00 AMWho knows? The next step could be an implant to eliminate your smartphone hardware all together.
Somehow implanting technology that is outdated after two years and that I don't need to live like a cardiac pacemaker doesn't strike me as a particularly sensible idea.
Not to mention that moving from tingling/vibrating skin applications to iPhones that live inside you is hardly "the next step".
Yeah awesome idea. :rolleyes:
What kind of cretin would do such a thing?
Quote from: Martinus on March 23, 2012, 03:55:07 AM
Yeah awesome idea. :rolleyes:
If it was Apple, you'd be first in line to get cut.
lol, Hamilton will be pleased.
OCtattoos here we come.
Useless to me. I dont own a cellphone.
Hopefully they can be used as bank cards, and then the Christian lunatics will start screaming about the anti-Christ and hopefully kill themselves.