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Programmable tattoos

By Sparky | June 7, 2006

Programmable tattoos

Now this is cool - a mixture of e-ink technology with old fashioned body implants. Several researchers are looking at ways of implanting small displays under human skin to provide a wide range of interactive experiences to people via a “tattoo interface”.

The concept is not only cool from the POV of someone who wants a tattoo, but does not know what they want, but also someone like me who would like an external display for notifications - “You have new mail”!

I hope this hits the market in some reasonable timeframe because when it does (and enough other people have gotten it to prove that it won’t cause cancer) sign me up!

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