"Electronic Skin" is Developed.

Run_to_da_hills

Probably a lot more difficult to remove a cattle beast branded electronic tattoo from your hand than an implanted Verichip or \positive ID. The sample in the video looks clumsy but no doubt like every thing else electronic it will get smaller and sweeter looking in time to come and you never know, it might even contain this. .

"This device contains a RFID chip and will be able to transfer information wirelessly to various networks. To get people interested and excited by the electronic skin tattoo, news articles describe its usefulness in health monitoring and…um…video games. What is however not advertised is how easily this device could be used to track, spy and monitor people".
http://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/electronic-skin-tattoo-with-rfid-technology-to-facilitate-monitoring/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buruG_7cO40

hooradiation

Pretty amazing technology, with loads of actual benefits, once you strip away the "zomg spying!" fluff.

Run_to_da_hills

hooradiation wrote: »

Pretty amazing technology, with loads of actual benefits, once you strip away the "zomg spying!" fluff.

Just don't let it get under your skin.

Torakx

Dont dis the fluff
Its the small details that can be most important.Especially with legislation.

hooradiation

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Just don't let it get under your skin.

Well, it'll fall off in a few hours anyway, in it's current format (and given the techniques that form the basis of it's adhesion, I don't know if that could be realistically extended), which puts the kibosh on some of the more fanciful notions - I'm more concerned about it as a medical tool. While obviously advantageous I'm not sure it'd withstand any kind of violent movement and ensuing friction on the part of the patient.


The sub-vocal communication aspect is all kinds of cool though.

Run_to_da_hills

hooradiation wrote: »

Well, it'll fall off in a few hours anyway, in it's current format (and given the techniques that form the basis of it's adhesion, I don't know if that could be realistically extended), which puts the kibosh on some of the more fanciful notions - I'm more concerned about it as a medical tool. While obviously advantageous I'm not sure it'd withstand any kind of violent movement and ensuing friction on the part of the patient.


The sub-vocal communication aspect is all kinds of cool though.

I would guess at the way technology is going these days it will shrink dramatically in size and be subliminally inserted like Verichip

hooradiation

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I would guess at the way technology is going these days it will shrink dramatically in size and be subliminally inserted like Verichip

I don't think that word means what you think it means. It's also not for "inserting", it's for affixing to the dermis.

But I guess if you're committed to finding a suspicious angle to everything, there's very little point in trying to demonstrate the flaws in your reasoning, simple because you are content to simply assert it will happen, not show how.
Or why.

Torakx

Maybe he means subliminally like the way we have terrorists attacking countries for no reason, causing us to need more and more security measures...subliminally bringing in a "prison planet" scenario.

hooradiation

Torakx wrote: »

Maybe he means subliminally like the way we have terrorists attacking countries for no reason

Hmmm, I must have missed that.

matrim

Kinda sounds like the OCTattoos from Robert Heinleins Pandoras star book.

hooradiation

matrim wrote: »

Kinda sounds like the OCTattoos from Robert Heinleins Pandoras star book.

The tattoo is a bit of a misnomer, given how they're more like the transfers you used to get from comics and stuff than anything else, and really are not the kind of permanent body modification that is being suggested by others.

Those OCTattoos sound very interesting though, might have to give those books a look.

nyarlothothep

matrim wrote: »

Kinda sounds like the OCTattoos from Robert Heinleins Pandoras star book.

Reminds me of that too. I was reading Hamilton's books only four or five years ago and the concept seemed far off and fanciful

enno99

hooradiation wrote: »

Well, it'll fall off in a few hours anyway, in it's current format (and given the techniques that form the basis of it's adhesion, I don't know if that could be realistically extended), which puts the kibosh on some of the more fanciful notions - I'm more concerned about it as a medical tool. While obviously advantageous I'm not sure it'd withstand any kind of violent movement and ensuing friction on the part of the patient.


The sub-vocal communication aspect is all kinds of cool though.

If they use this technique it may solve the adhesion problem




http://phys.org/news122819670.html

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

hooradiation

enno99 wrote: »

If they use this technique it may solve the adhesion problem




http://phys.org/news122819670.html

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

That's goddamn amazing - Kinda defeats the purpose of it being a temporary, disposable device though.

Torakx

And god/science forbid in the future you got hacked or got a virus lol

Run_to_da_hills

Torakx wrote: »

And god/science forbid in the future you got hacked or got a virus lol

Being RFID based would be quite easy to get hacked or cloned unless you are willing to wear a Faraday caged signal blocking shield over your tattoo. I am sure if it did pick up a virus it could be be reset to its original firmware like any smart card or phone etc.

RoboClam

enno99 wrote: »

If they use this technique it may solve the adhesion problem




http://phys.org/news122819670.html

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

What does he do if he wants to get a new phone/change networks?

Torakx

Maybe by the time that technology is mainstream, there will be only one corp responsible for telecommunications worldwide and all Armsets *giggles* will be standardised.

Eircom already sells info across to america iirc, so its not really that fantstic to consider 20-40 years down the line.
Internet 2 will probably be out then too lol
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