Future Files:Digital Tattoos Will Alert You to Incoming Calls and Diseases Too
Posted On: 28 February 2008 By: Jay Oatway Filed Under: Franken-Life | Future-Stuff-That-Goes-Ping | No Strings | Transhuman Horizons
Perhaps you’ve had too much to drink, or maybe you’ve contracted malaria — it’s hard to tell, since the human body has no built in diagnosis system.
But that may change with a bit of help from digital tattoos. Everything from mobile phone calls to blood analysis could be displayed from just under your skin. Think of it as a "Check Engine" light for the human body. [via Green Gadgets]
Her cell phone is ringing, but the display is turned off. She lightly pushes a small dot on the skin on her left forearm to suddenly reveal a two by four inch tattoo with the image of the cell phone’s digital display, directly in the skin of her arm.
She answers the call by pushing a tattooed button on her arm. While she’s talking, the tattoo comes to life as a digital video of the caller. When she finishes, the tattoo disappears.
This Bluetooth device is permanently implanted beneath the skin. It is flat, flexible, silicon and silicone. Tightly rolled when it’s inserted through a small incision, and then unfurled beneath the skin, it lies benignly between skin and muscle.
Of course, the device would run on blood:
Through the same incision, two small tubes are attached from the implanted device to an artery and a vein. A coin sized blood fuel cell in the implant converts the blood’s glucose and oxygen from the artery to the electricity required to power the device. Used blood returns through to the vein. The digital device’s power source is the same as for all of the biological components in the body.
Which is to say that digital tattoos will be pizza powered.
The future gets under you skin.
