Future NSA informer.
Posted on 11/10/2013 6:16:03 PM PST by markomalley
A Motorola Mobility patent application has proposed using an "electronic skin tattoo" as a smartphone microphone and wireless transceiver.
The temporary tattoo would also include a "power supply configured to receive energising signals from a personal area network", according to the filing with the US Patent and Trademark Office.
It would be applied to "a throat region of a body" - otherwise known as the neck.
The user would still need to use either headphones or the built-in receiver to listen to the incoming audio.
But Motorola thinks the technology would be ideal for noisy environments, such as large stadiums and busy streets, or in emergency situations.
"Communication can reasonably be improved and even enhanced with a method and system for reducing the acoustic noise in such environments and contexts," the filing read.
The tattoo would pick up acoustic sounds from the throat, convert the analogue signal into digital so the smartphone can process the information and provide the right output.
Motorola also proposed adding "a galvanic skin response detector to detect skin resistance of a user", which could have lie detector functionality.
"It is contemplated that a user that may be nervous or engaging in speaking falsehoods may exhibit different galvanic skin response than a more confident, truth telling individual."
Smart tattoos
This is not the first time Motorola has shown an interest in tattoos. Back in May, Regina Duncan, ex-DARPA head and lead for advanced research at the Google-owned phone maker, proposed using tattoos with near field communications as authentication tokens.
She also suggested a pill containing a switch and a battery could be swallowed by a user, whose stomach acids would work as an electrolyte to power the device. That would then create a signal, essentially turning your entire body into an authentication token, according to Duncan.
electronic skin tattoo
Hello? Is anyone not getting the drift of this? So, it’s at the bottom of the head and not the top?
Why not put a receiver "tattoo" in the ear?
as far as we are able to determine his electronic neck tattoo overloaded and blew his head clean off his shoulders
It would be applied to “a throat region of a body” - otherwise known as the neck.
Wow, I’m glad they cleared that up.
Google.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG...?
Pfffft. It used to be RFIDs. Before that it was barcodes. Before that it was SSNs.
I’m waiting for the “666” tattoo that acts like a debit card, allowing you to make secure purchases from your bank account with a bar code scanner. Once national health care has become the full law of the land, I predict this product will be introduced and all people will be required to get it as part of their health coverage.
Ooooopsies!
Future NSA informer.
One thing that I have noticed over the past few years of watching History Channel programs is that American WOMEN seem to be going insane over tattoos, slathered all over their entire body. What is it with these skanks?
I can not imagine anything uglier, or more disgusting.
This is fantastic, if you’ve ever known anybody who had a voice-destroying surgery. But I guess the jerks on this thread never think something like that could happen to them.
microphone, not speaker.
Men are definitely worse than women about tattoos, it’s just that women’s tattoos stand out more.
Im pretty sure I saw Laurie Anderson do this in concert in the 80’s
I cannot either. Fashion. Like dressing all black, another disgusting trend. Repelling. Old wrinkled hags are tattoeing themselves, not just young chicks. What will happen when the fashion passes? Maybe I should open a tattoo removal parlor.
I heard an FM radio dee jay talking about this today. He did not name the correct company though, I think he said it was google.
However, I agreed with him when he said: this is the beginning of the Borg.
Gives new meaning to the term, ‘Head Office’.
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