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.

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.

On both the top and bottom surfaces of the display is a matching matrix of field-producing pixels. The top surface also enables touch-screen control through the skin. Instead of ink, the display uses tiny microscopic spheres, somewhat similar to tattoo ink. A field-sensitive material in the spheres changes their color from clear to black, aligned with the matrix fields.

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. When the phone rings, for example, an individual turns the display on, and "the tattoo comes to life as a digital video of the caller," Mielke explains. When the call ends, the tattoo disappears.

Could such an invasive device have harmful biological effects? Actually, the device could offer health benefits. That´s because it also continually monitors for many blood disorders, alerting the person of a health problem.

The tattoo display is still just a concept, with no word on plans for commercialization.



source: http://www.physorg.com/news122819670.html


i personaly think that this is about the most epic thing ever.

I prefer mine to be powered by the souls of children and tears of widows, but my own blood will do.

I hope this never catches on.:eye:

I would want one. That would be so sweet.

I wouldnt use it as a phone mind you...

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.

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.

On both the top and bottom surfaces of the display is a matching matrix of field-producing pixels. The top surface also enables touch-screen control through the skin. Instead of ink, the display uses tiny microscopic spheres, somewhat similar to tattoo ink. A field-sensitive material in the spheres changes their color from clear to black, aligned with the matrix fields.

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. When the phone rings, for example, an individual turns the display on, and "the tattoo comes to life as a digital video of the caller," Mielke explains. When the call ends, the tattoo disappears.

Could such an invasive device have harmful biological effects? Actually, the device could offer health benefits. That´s because it also continually monitors for many blood disorders, alerting the person of a health problem.

The tattoo display is still just a concept, with no word on plans for commercialization.



source: http://www.physorg.com/news122819670.html


i personaly think that this is about the most epic thing ever.

Anybody else have a problem with it feeding off of glucose and oxygen.

Uhh, this would be a huge problem with people with diabetes, anorexia, and or those that have ever been short of breath.

Seeing as the rest of your body would need the same amount of oxygen, wouldn't this require your lungs to pump more oxygen, leading to a shorter life span?

Uhh, I think I might just pass. I think if I get the wind knocked out of me, the last thing I want to worry about is a dropped phone call.

Man,when I read this all I could think of was Seth from Superbad.




Funny thing about my phone is, it's located on my cock.




(He could get the tatto on his genital area.)

phones running on blood?

get the **** out of here......

I prefer mine to be powered by the souls of children and tears of widows, but my own blood will do.
Personally, I just stick to the blood of aborted fetuses. But hey, to each their own.:)





I'm interested in how much oxygen and glucose it takes out of your body though... Because if it takes too much out, that can make you light-headed, or even kill you.

Hey, if they can find a way to do it without the, you know, life-threatening stuff that everyone has listed, I'd buy two.

One for porn, which I'd put on the back of my hand, and another on my forehead to freak out little children.

Ah,finally.

A way to get rid of mobile phone teenage hogs...

Hey, if they can find a way to do it without the, you know, life-threatening stuff that everyone has listed, I'd buy two.

One for porn, which I'd put on the back of my hand, and another on my forehead to freak out little children.
No, on. You need one in your off-hand's palm. That way you can make an eyeball show up, and just hold your hand out and be like "I COMMAND THEE POWER WITHIN ME!"
And you have this eyeball in the palm of your hand.

In all honesty, let's all come clean.

After the five minutes when we've all pretended to be Robocop, what good is this going to do?

I can see phone stealing criminals already sharpening their scalpels..

In all honesty, let's all come clean.

After the five minutes when we've all pretended to be Robocop, what good is this going to do?

Give us the life-long satisfaction that humanity is one step closer to Ghost in the Shell.

You know, the whole cyborg thing.

Because it's a machine, inside you body, and stuff.

And thats cool. Really.

Give us the life-long satisfaction that humanity is one step closer to Ghost in the Shell.

You know, the whole cyborg thing.

Because it's a machine, inside you body, and stuff.

And thats cool. Really.

That and our eternal craving for porn on the palm of your hand.

Also,extremely useful for the times you forget your portable media player.You hear me Sunday?No more torture!NO MORE BORING OLD PEOPLE HOUSES THAT DON'T EVEN HAVE CABLE!

You wouldn't want porn in the palm of your hand, cos then when you need the palm of your hand, you won't be able to see the screen.

It's just too problematic.

Man,when I read this all I could think of was Seth from Superbad.




Funny thing about my phone is, it's located on my cock.




(He could get the tatto on his genital area.)
That's not what he says.
He says "funny thing about my back is, it's located on my cock."

this is all crap lol

You wouldn't want porn in the palm of your hand, cos then when you need the palm of your hand, you won't be able to see the screen.

It's just too problematic.
I don't know about you, but I only need one hand...

I don't know about you, but I only need one hand...

Some of us are just built in ways akin to the mastodons of bygone eras, Sir Fabian.

Hahaha.

Nah, I thought people meant the screen would be in the palm that they were doing it with.

I don't know about you, but I only need one hand...

Hah, look mommy, no hands. Yeah, talk about freaky.

Some of us are just built in ways akin to the mastodons of bygone eras, Sir Fabian.

Hahaha.

Nah, I thought people meant the screen would be in the palm that they were doing it with.

That's why God invented, the left hand (to put the screen of course, we don't want to slow down the motion of the lotion.)

That's why God invented, the left hand (to put the screen of course, we don't want to slow down the motion of the lotion.)
Pssshhhhh, us lefties that have been trained to use the mouse with our right had truly have it made.:p

That's not what he says.
He says "funny thing about my back is, it's located on my cock."

Yeah, but I changed it for the sake of the joke.... that was the point.

So if you're cought using this phone in class, how do you confiscate it?

I can't wait to see what other shit they invent.

It's just odd to me.

They'll make a phone you can use that's built into your arm and runs on blood, this is a perfectly feasible idea, but airplanes have no bathroom windows. Who's going to see you? Superman?

It just seems *** backward.

Some of us are just built in ways akin to the mastodons of bygone eras.

atta boy :3

I put on my tusks.

I put on my tusks.

I put on my wizard hat

Way to go ruining it. Mine was in keeping with the pre-historic theme, that's just silly what you said.

Fine. Wizards it is, but now you've put on your hat, what can I put on? A robe? That defeats the point of sex, we're meant to be taking clothes off.

This is all too confusing. Hold me.

Way to go ruining it. Mine was in keeping with the pre-historic theme, that's just silly what you said.

Fine. Wizards it is, but now you've put on your hat, what can I put on? A robe? That defeats the point of sex, we're meant to be taking clothes off.

This is all too confusing. Hold me.

i put on my loincoth, viking axe and drakkar, dismember you and proceed to stealing your woman.

It all sounds very cyberpunk :)

edit: what happened to this thread lol

Ordin happened... enough said

i put on my loincoth, viking axe and drakkar, dismember you and proceed to stealing your woman.

So THAT'S why you love fantasy, cos it's a place where you get to steal Kitty.

I put on my lock and mod hat.