Feel like you couldn’t cope with being more than a few feet away from your smartphone?
No. It hardly ever rings anyway.
Well Motorola might have the solution, filing a patent for a throat tattoo that incorporates a microphone and power supply.
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The patent for “coupling an electronic skin tattoo to a mobile communication device” includes an embedded microphone, a ‘transceiver for enabling wireless communication’ and a power supply that could run from a battery or solar power.
The technology seems to be a combination of the trend for second screen devices such as the Galaxy Gear smartwatch that act as a mediator for our smartphones, and the developing field of electronic tattoos.
Okay, I have a smartwatch. It’s a gadget that I find amusing. It is, however, a gadget I can easily remove and leave behind should I wish to do so.
Motorola’s patent application though also suggests uses beyond simple communication, mentioning the inclusion of a “galvanic skin response detector” that might turn the device into a lie-detector.
Okay, so I like my Motorola phone, but there is no way on this Earth that I am having an electronic tattoo (I won’t even have a conventional ink tattoo) – and I’m certainly not having a lie detector attached to my body – I want to lie easily and freely should the need arise…
But, I guess, the drones will be lining up to be stamped and processed.
Does everyone have all the devices or is it the ‘young folk’ mostly.
As an aged pensioner I cant see the benefit in them even if I had the cash.
Of course this is in Australia/. Maybe you are all wealthy in your area.
I agree with you John I think it’s a young person thing because they are brainwashed to believe this is normal and it really isn’t.
It’s scarey in the extreme, I am not quite a pensioner but I could not afford this I can’t even afford my current mobile contract which will be cancelled come feb next year when I can cancel without paying a whopping penalty. When I worked full time and had a busy life and an important job I needed it now I don’t it’s a useless item . It mostly gets used for taking photos and I have a camera for that.
I’m a bit of a geek, so tend to like gadgets. It isn’t about being wealthy – when I needed a new watch, the smartwatch was within my budget, so I went for it. I draw the line at a tattoo, though.
See, if Apple made one of those, I’d be torn. I just hate needles!
Jesus H Christ on a bike. Why don’t they just electronically tag us all and be done with it.
This is another story that makes me want to stay indoors with the curtains drawn and never set foot outside again. It’s a bloody miracle I am not a raging agoraphobic, I was just saying to my partner last night that everyone rants on about bullying but the state is the worst bully there has ever been. I am sure various governments will soon be rubbing their hands in glee at this technology and queuing up to pay Motorola billions for the rights so they can track us all, and the worst part is that the younger generation will be queuing up for it, because they actually believe they are enlightened free thinkers.
I can’t write Panoptica now. They’ve done it.
That story opened with the CCTV operator finding a ghost. Someone who’s on the camera but who has no associated number from the RFID readers.
Maybe I can still do it… but it’ll be a documentary.
It’s probably time you gave up writing as you cannot keep up with this lot. Perhaps you should switch to writing romances?