Vibrating tattoos

[Cereal]

Personally, I find this terrifying. It's the next step in Big Brother's mind control. Or perhaps I am just paranoid. However, would you have this done to you? Good God, you'd never be free. I hate phones although I have one for my job here so CT's can reach me. I probably spend less than 10 minutes a week on it.

Vibrating Tattoos Could Function as Ringtones


Nokia has filed a patent for a vibrating tattoo, the Wall Street Journal reports.

According to the patent application, Nokia is proposing “a material attachable to skin, the material capable of detecting a magnetic field and transferring a perceivable stimulus to the skin, wherein the perceivable stimulus relates to the magnetic field.”

The idea is that the magnetic field would interact with the tattoo and could be employed as a ringtone of sorts — vibrating during incoming calls, when a text message is received or when the battery is running low. The Journal also notes that the patent application could manifest in a badge. Either way, the idea is to embed the phone on a person.

Such a technology has its perks: You’ll never miss another call, and people won’t have to listen to your obnoxious ringtone anymore.

[Engrish]

I don't know man...it sounds like this will have the same amount of control over you as a bluetooth headset.

The only thing it's doing is transmitting information/signals from your phone to the tattoo, NOT from the tattoo to a service provider.

Either way, with these kinds of technology, it behooves the companies to NOT put in something that might be controversial.
Remember a while back someone raised a huge stink because Apple phones were supposedly tracking everything you do?
Most Apple customers (huge generalization here) don't care much about that stuff, but Nokia is trying to be very open source, like Android, so it's not in their company philosophy to do something like that.

I think this will just be a cheap accessory like a bluetooth headset or those cute characters on a string girls hang on their cell phones.

[vw08]

Companies, especially tech companies, tend to patent everything and anything that looks like it might be promising.  If this technology does eventually come to market, it is years away most likely.  For every new product that is released, there are dozens ,if not more, ideas and technologies that were patented and left either on the drawing board or in a concept stage.

[Cereal]

I bet the technology has been around for awhile and has been in use by the CIA and Black-ops, among others perhaps.

[kerirose]

That sounds...strange. Not sure I'd be totally into that...

[vw08]

I bet the technology has been around for awhile and has been in use by the CIA and Black-ops, among others perhaps.

I wouldn't doubt that at all.  The internet, GPS and any number of other technologies were originally created by or for the military or government.