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Community => Science and Technology => Topic started by: gyeonghwa on March 27, 2012, 09:08:51 pm
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By Nokia! http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/forget-ringtones-nokia-patented-tattoo-vibrates-call.html
This sounds like something straight out of Blade Runner, but it’s absolutely true. A few years from now your mobile phone may no longer have a ringer. It won’t need it. Instead you’ll have a vibrating tattoo.
Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia has filed a patent for a device which would be embedded in your skin and use haptic feedback triggered by commands from your cell phone. Haptics are meant to appeal to your sensse of touch using vibrations in the skin. Nokia describes their new device this way:
…a material attachable to skin, the material capable of detecting a magnetic field and transferring a perceivable stimulus to the skin, wherein the perceivable stimulus relates to the magnetic field
So how soon until the phone implants?
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Well thats slightly disturbing. I dont like the idea of someone making my skin vibrate...
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Damn this is the power of Finnish engineering and education.
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How long 'til someone gets one of these tats on his junk?
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What happens to your vibrating tattoo when the technology is outdated in 5 years?
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Sounds like my sensory nightmare.
lol no thanx
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What happens to your vibrating tattoo when the technology is outdated in 5 years?
If I remember my cyberpunk correctly you go on a psychotic rampage due to your having a single cosmetic implant.
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I want an animated tattoo. Electrophoretic displays or something.
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I want printers that can print animated .gifs
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I want printers that can print animated .gifs
Just hope that nobody hacks it and uses it to display goatse.
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I want printers that can print animated .gifs
Just hope that nobody hacks it and uses it to display goatse.
Technically, goatse is a still image, so if it was at all hackable, it would've already been hacked.
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And then Apple will make their own version.
And then all the yuppies will be screaming:
(http://motivpic.com/users-data/pics/1/17/shut-up-and-take-my-money-1f46.jpg)
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And then when the hardware goes bad, they have to have their entire limb amputated and replaced with a different limb in order to get it fixed.
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AmI the only one who immediately thought of the more NSFW applications of this technology?
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No. You weren't. ;)
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How long 'til someone gets one of these tats on his junk?
AmI the only one who immediately thought of the more NSFW applications of this technology?
It would appear not.
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I can see some stupid people getting it tattooed on their junk and then getting some sort of necrotic poisoning from it.
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My concern would be more along the lines of... how would it tell the difference between your cell phone and the guy next to you in line? Would you need a new implant every time you changed phones? If multiple companies start doing this, will implants be universal, or will companies capitalize on "installation" fees by making their implants only work with their own phones?
Switching cell phone plans is already a major hassle. I don't think adding minor surgery to the list would improve things.
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How long 'til someone gets one of these tats on his junk?
Not too long after someone figures out they can put themselves on speed dial.
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How long 'til someone gets one of these tats on his junk?
My guess: as soon as it's possible to do so.
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It is things like this that make me proud of being a Finn.
Also, as soon as someone designs an animated tattoo I'm gonna get a tattoo of tentacles/worms that wriggle and move beneath my skin and it will be on my right hand so that I can freak out people who want to shake hands with me.
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I'll get an animated tattoo that makes it look like I'm constantly regenerating, like a Time Lord. Get to explain that I'm stuck in a permanent state of regeneration due to some wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.
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Flames that is all.
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When your skin sags due to age, what happens to the tattoo? Does it get distorted?