No question about it, Shaun Saunders loves to inform and shock all at the same time. Case in point, this juicy tidbit from Physorg.com:
Jim Mielke's wireless 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.
If that isn't unusual enough, the unit has a most unusual power-supply.....blood.
The basis of the 2x4-inch "Digital Tattoo Interface" is a Bluetooth device made of thin, flexible silicon and silicone. It´s inserted through a small incision as a tightly rolled tube, and then it unfurls beneath the skin to align between skin and muscle. Through the same incision, two small tubes on the device are attached to an artery and a vein to allow the blood to flow to a coin-sized blood fuel cell that converts glucose and oxygen to electricity. After blood flows in from the artery to the fuel cell, it flows out again through the vein.
If you're like me your both fascinated and repelled at the same time.!
The tattoo display communicates wirelessly to other Bluetooth devices - both in the outside world and within the same body. Although the device is always on (as long as your blood´s flowing), the display can be turned off and on by pushing a small dot on the skin.
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We are the BORG you will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. Thanks Shaun, I know I am going to have nightmares over this one!
Jim Mielke's wireless 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.
If that isn't unusual enough, the unit has a most unusual power-supply.....blood.
The basis of the 2x4-inch "Digital Tattoo Interface" is a Bluetooth device made of thin, flexible silicon and silicone. It´s inserted through a small incision as a tightly rolled tube, and then it unfurls beneath the skin to align between skin and muscle. Through the same incision, two small tubes on the device are attached to an artery and a vein to allow the blood to flow to a coin-sized blood fuel cell that converts glucose and oxygen to electricity. After blood flows in from the artery to the fuel cell, it flows out again through the vein.
If you're like me your both fascinated and repelled at the same time.!
The tattoo display communicates wirelessly to other Bluetooth devices - both in the outside world and within the same body. Although the device is always on (as long as your blood´s flowing), the display can be turned off and on by pushing a small dot on the skin.
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We are the BORG you will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. Thanks Shaun, I know I am going to have nightmares over this one!
1 comment:
These sorts of articles and proposed gadgets will most likely have the effect of getting consumers accustomed to the idea that having techno gadgets and 'stuff' implanted under their skin is not only OK, but is the 'way of the future', cool, or even 'normal'...what does it lead to?...implanting of SIDs (subcutaneous ID chips) at the very least, and that is something to be VERY scared about.
Roll on Mallcity 14, goodbye freedom.
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