Just discovered – in a Greener Gadgets forum of all places – a digital tattoo interface that actually has some real potential. A flexible silicon/silicone responsive display is injected and unrolled just under the dermis. The silicon layer controls an injected array of “ink” just above it to display black and white (or peach, or whatever your complexion is). How does it receive information? It’s Bluetooth enabled so the display can interact with your cell or PMP to display video or receive calls. How is it powered? By jacking into your body’s own arterial network. How awesome is it? Pretty awesome.
Adventures in Convergence XXV: Miami Ink Meet Motorola
March 4, 2008 by dandennis
Aaaak! This is wicked cool, but I’m not sure how comfortable I am with this. How do we feel about Big Brother issues with this and similar technologies?
Are these simply outdated denials of our increasingly wired and interconnected lives? Or is this an essential resistance to the perpetual abdication of our autonomy and privacy?
I don’t know, but if you spend any time with “The Foucault Reader”, you start to get a bit paranoid.
Enjoy!
Kristian