Electronic Tattoo - Is this bizarre?

[EnchantedFrog]

I like to think I am a technology guy. I started studying computer programming way back in the 60's when you were considered 'special' if you could manipulate the machines of the future.
I've always liked scientific advances, new tech items, things that are cool and on the leading edge. But, I have forced myself to reconsider when I see some of the things that people are coming up with now.

http://foundersdiary.com/images/tattoodisplay.jpg

Jim Mielke's wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging
of technology and body art. At the recent Greener Gadgets Design Competition,
the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen that
operates as a cell phone display, with the potential for 3G video calls that are
visible just underneath the skin.


Link to article (http://www.physorg.com/news122819670.html)

[Army Wife]

ya know I don't think I need to be that attached to my cell phone... :))

[King Cantona]

ya know I don't think I need to be that attached to my cell phone... :))

Don't you just hate it when you go out and then you realise you've forgot your phone?.....

Can't happen with that guy........

Although with the speed technology advances that'll probably be obsolete next week......

[BillBrown]

I think the Joker used one of those in the last Batman movie.

[mboncher]

Ahhh we are rapidly approaching the era of 'cyberware' being introduced into daily life. William Gibson was only off by ohhhh 15-20 years.

Although I'm still not seeing cybernetic limbs and other serious superhuman prosthetic replacement a la Ghost in the Shell or any of a dozen other Anime features and games, it will probably happen sometime this century to some degree or another.

Very strange and scary days on the way.

[gdoane]

Tough luck if you try the cell phone and you don't like it. That's worse than a 2 year contract.

[mboncher]

Tough luck if you try the cell phone and you don't like it. That's worse than a 2 year contract.
ROFLMAO! :clap: :clap: Bwaaaaaahahahahaahahahaaaa!

Good on ya Gene! Great laugh this morning.

[King Cantona]

Tough luck if you try the cell phone and you don't like it. That's worse than a 2 year contract.

People laugh at me for having pay as you go.........

Who's laughing now smartarse?.........:))..........

[gdoane]

There was a time when cell phones
spoke of wealth and class,
but now I've got Verizon
tattooed upon my ass.

I don't know how this vexing
could come about or be,
but now if I am texting,
I look like I have fleas.

I can't shut off this telephone,
no matter how I try,
so long as I have flesh and bone,
it's ringing 'til I die.

[mboncher]

Oh crap, the poet laureate of Hannity.com strikes again!

[blackcatrun]

The boiler rooms get your number. telemarketers calling every five seconds....repeated dials over and over again trying to sell you a new shoe warrent on your pushing a "government made car shoes".

[psyko kat]

People laugh at me for having pay as you go.........

Who's laughing now smartarse?.........:))..........

I have a -prepaid- phone,too. It's the only way to roll../ I will never go back to 'contract' phones.

[RWReaganfan]

You think this is bad, wait until they sell the fax machine application that causes you to hold a roll of toilet paper between your butt cheeks!

[mysticbeauty_nbeast]

I like to think I am a technology guy. I started studying computer programming way back in the 60's when you were considered 'special' if you could manipulate the machines of the future.
I've always liked scientific advances, new tech items, things that are cool and on the leading edge. But, I have forced myself to reconsider when I see some of the things that people are coming up with now.

http://foundersdiary.com/images/tattoodisplay.jpg

Jim Mielke's wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging
of technology and body art. At the recent Greener Gadgets Design Competition,
the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen that
operates as a cell phone display, with the potential for 3G video calls that are
visible just underneath the skin.


Link to article (http://www.physorg.com/news122819670.html)


How on earth does this guy 'hear' the call? I mean think about it..is there some Alien type tech (think Wynonia Ryder in Alien 4...or was it 5?) Is there some odd port that has to be pulled from his arm and placed into his ear? Ewwwwwww....grosses me out just thinking about that. :sick:

~Mysty

[mysticbeauty_nbeast]

Oh crap, the poet laureate of Hannity.com strikes again!

Gene has a true gift...makes me spew coffee on my 'new' computer screen laughing....

He's just getting better with age...;)

~Mysty

[gdoane]

How on earth does this guy 'hear' the call? I mean think about it..is there some Alien type tech (think Wynonia Ryder in Alien 4...or was it 5?) Is there some odd port that has to be pulled from his arm and placed into his ear? Ewwwwwww....grosses me out just thinking about that. :sick:

~Mysty

The way I read it, the audio goes through bluetooth, like a regular bluetooth earpiece you see people wearing and chatting away on.

I've got one, Goodlife bought me a Motorola H700 bluetooth headset for a present a while back. It works pretty well around the house, I mean around the whole house because the cell phone can be sitting in the charger and I can walk around talking on the cell phone with the cell phone three rooms away. My house is big, but not big enough to get more than three rooms away from anywhere.

The disadvantage is, even though this "tattoo phone" would never need charging, your bluetooth headset would certainly need to be. So you're basically back at square one, you're still stuck with a charger and a device you can forget or which runs out of battery life on you.

[mysticbeauty_nbeast]

The way I read it, the audio goes through bluetooth, like a regular bluetooth earpiece you see people wearing and chatting away on.

I've got one, Goodlife bought me a Motorola H700 bluetooth headset for a present a while back. It works pretty well around the house, I mean around the whole house because the cell phone can be sitting in the charger and I can walk around talking on the cell phone with the cell phone three rooms away. My house is big, but not big enough to get more than three rooms away from anywhere.

The disadvantage is, even though this "tattoo phone" would never need charging, your bluetooth headset would certainly need to be. So you're basically back at square one, you're still stuck with a charger and a device you can forget or which runs out of battery life on you.

Ohhhhh.....:redface::redface: Didn't even think about those ear head sets thingies. Hubby just got one with his new phone...hates it...needs recharging all to often.

Still, can't imagine a phone on my arm...or rather...in my arm. To weird...:sick:

~Mysty

[King Cantona]

I have a -prepaid- phone,too. It's the only way to roll../ I will never go back to 'contract' phones.

I have two prepaid phones, one I use here in England and another I use in the US. When I travel to the US I put money on my account just by using the internet, isn't the modern world wonderful?...

Then when I get off the plane I start phoning people immediately, I only stay for 5 or 6 weeks so a contract is no good to me.....

[jeepers]

How about this....what do you do when the technology to support this is obsolete?

Bluetooth is temporary, that crap on and in his arm, is not.

This is one of those 'dur, I didn't think this through and now I'm screwed', situations.

[jeepers]

There was a time when cell phones
spoke of wealth and class,
but now I've got Verizon
tattooed upon my ass.

I don't know how this vexing
could come about or be,
but now if I am texting,
I look like I have fleas.

I can't shut off this telephone,
no matter how I try,
so long as I have flesh and bone,
it's ringing 'til I die.

:clap: :lol:

[gdoane]

I have two prepaid phones, one I use here in England and another I use in the US. When I travel to the US I put money on my account just by using the internet, isn't the modern world wonderful?...

Then when I get off the plane I start phoning people immediately, I only stay for 5 or 6 weeks so a contract is no good to me.....


I don't think I could use a prepaid cell phone the way I use mine. I hit "modem" on my cell phone, pop open the laptop and hit the bluetooth link and get on the internet using my phone as an EVDO modem connection. If there's a prepaid phone doing that, I've never seen one.

I get into unlimited texting, e-mailing photos from the camera phone and such too so a pre-paid cell phone would probably last me all of about a half hour before I wound up having to reload the minutes.

The one I've got is kind of expensive, about $120 per month or so, but I don't have to worry about extra charges because it's unlimited anything I wanna do.

[Pauper66]

How about this....what do you do when the technology to support this is obsolete?

Bluetooth is temporary, that crap on and in his arm, is not.

This is one of those 'dur, I didn't think this through and now I'm screwed', situations.

It's not an actual tattoo. It is an implant, which can be easily removed. If technology ever got to the point where that would work, interchangeability wouldn't even garner a second thought, and it would likely be done in-store at your local cell provider's retail outlet.

[King Cantona]

The one I've got is kind of expensive, about $120 per month or so, but I don't have to worry about extra charges because it's unlimited anything I wanna do.

HOW MUCH!!!!!

I'm allergic to spending money.......;).........

But to be fair when I go the US I put about $120 on anyway but if I lived there I think I'd get a contract phone......

$49.99 a month on Virgin Mobile for unlimited calling...

[gdoane]

HOW MUCH!!!!!

I'm allergic to spending money.......;).........

But to be fair when I go the US I put about $120 on anyway but if I lived there I think I'd get a contract phone......

$49.99 a month on Virgin Mobile for unlimited calling...

Money is just money, I approach it as what I call "drill theory".

Nobody wants a drill, what they want is a hole. They wind up with their hole and a drill they never really wanted. End results matter, not the tools. Money is just a tool. I'd rather have the results than the tools.

That's why I'm more willing to pay for the results. The phone isn't what I want, I want what it does. The whole point of the OP article is nobody really likes cell phones, they just like what cell phones do.

[angelicmadrigal]

One step closer to real world cyber-ware.

[King Cantona]

The Terminator is closer than you think........

I'll be back.......

[gdoane]

One step closer to real world cyber-ware.

I think it would be funny to load up some of the captured terrorists out of Gitmo with these things.

Terrorist One: "Hey Achmed, are you wearing a wiretap?"
Terrorist Two: "What makes you think that?"
Terrorist One: "Your arm is glowing and has a dial tone."
Terrorist Two: "Never mind that, it's just my new suicide bomb!"

[angelicmadrigal]

I think it would be funny to load up some of the captured terrorists out of Gitmo with these things.

Terrorist One: "Hey Achmed, are you wearing a wiretap?"
Terrorist Two: "What makes you think that?"
Terrorist One: "Your arm is glowing and has a dial tone."
Terrorist Two: "Never mind that, it's just my new suicide bomb!"

Personally, I am holding out for fiberoptic hair implants.

[mboncher]

The Terminator is closer than you think........

I'll be back.......
The Terminator was never about Cyberware but Artificial Intelligence and Mankind being too smart for his own good, if you want to get to the essence like some frazzled film student. We are still a LONG way away from true artificial intelligence. But if you want to see what we're going towards read pretty much anything by Masamune Shirow. His most prominent thesis on the topic can best be show in the movies and TV show "Ghost in the Shell". (GitS: Stand Alone Complex is the TV show.)

Incredible chunks of philosophy regarding what makes us human? Where is the line between reality and simulation? When does a man become a machine?

The new "Appleseed" movies are outstanding too and also delve into similar views of the same subject. IMHO, these are more well thought out than say the Matrix and possibly even "Dark City"

There ya go. Have fun experiencing the Tachikomas, they're a riot.

[Lady Liberty]

Wow. So, 'there's an app for that' takes on a new meanings.

Need to lower blood pressure? Dial 899 for guided meditation app. Need to stay awake for a big project? Dial 002 for periodic electrical pulses guaranteed to keep you awake. Special charges apply.

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[mboncher]

Wow. So, 'there's an app for that' takes on a new meanings.

Need to lower blood pressure? Dial 899 for guided meditation app. Need to stay awake for a big project? Dial 002 for periodic electrical pulses guaranteed to keep you awake. Special charges apply.
It's a matter of time.

[angelicmadrigal]

Incredible chunks of philosophy regarding what makes us human? Where is the line between reality and simulation? When does a man become a machine?



Depending on the gaming system it's when either a certain percentage of your body is cyberware OR your essence drops below a certain level (from particularly invasive forms of cyberware).

[mboncher]

Depending on the gaming system it's when either a certain percentage of your body is cyberware OR your essence drops below a certain level (from particularly invasive forms of cyberware).
LOL... yes, my Cyberpunk Humanity stat sinks too low, and I get Cyberpsychosis. You don't know how many gamers would push the envelope to get as much cyberware as possible without going mad in that game. They needed a different metric to keep from characters who should be overly empathetic fluffy bunnies becoming remorseless killing machines thinking they gamed the rules.

But Masamune Shirow doesn't write for game systems, and therefore isn't restricted by systems and gamist issues.