Cell Phone tattoo runs on blood

[samplegirl]

Huh?

In the very near future, cell phone users can implant a silicone cell phone under their skin.

When switched on it appears as a tattoo with a standard keyboard and display.
The cell connects to a bluetooth earpiece, and is powered by your own blood flow. (so what happens when you try to call 911 for a heart attack?)

http://www.physorg.com/news122819670.html
Even worse...what about kids with so many tats already, they have to find an alternate location?
I guess those baggy shorts will be very popular indeed.

[Hawkeye-X]

1. if your blood stops flowing..

It should be a hint to call 911 automatically.

:shrug:

[backscatter712]

6. The article says it actually monitors such things.

At least the prototype being shown in the article (which is just a prototype of the electronic display implanted under the skin that looks like a tattoo.)

It runs on a fuel cell that is hooked into your bloodstream so it generates electricity from blood glucose.

And it has sensors that monitors blood chemistry and raises alarms if it detects something bad - anything from out-of-whack blood sugar levels or oxygen levels to chemical signs of a heart attack.

Sounds pretty cool, though you'll excuse me if I don't volunteer to be the first to be implanted with this gadget.

[Hawkeye-X]

9. I propose that we implant that to Darth Cheney.

It'll be busy calling 911 every single day that the dispatch is going to ask to start ignoring Darth Cheney and let him rot.

[Richard D]

2. How do you hear and talk?

Bluetooth? Speaker embedded in the mastoid process and mic in the throat? Yipes, I'm not ready for that one.

[samplegirl]

5. Bluetooth

[TahitiNut]

3. Wow. How handy. Especially with a GPS.

:eyes:

[Javaman]

24. new verizon commerical, "can you find me now?"nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

33. *snarf*

[alfredo]

4. Can't wait to see the fax machine.

[TommyO]

8. it certainly would give new meaning to the Paper Jam error message!

[lonestarnot]

12. bwwwwwwwwwwwaaaa aha ah ha ha!

:rofl:

[MADem]

14. Sending, or receiving???

:rofl:

[alfredo]

17. Yes.

[Liberal In Texas]

7. I know people that would have this done tomorrow.

They may as well already have a phone implanted as much as they're on it.

[Mythsaje]

10. Welcome to the future.

"No, I don't CARE if all your friends are doing it...you're NOT having a data port installed in your skull."

Cyberreality. Really.

[lonestarnot]

11. And since silicon boobs are a disaster, why wouldn't this be?

[lame54]

31. They can be turned into iPOD speakers

[Heywood J]

34. Done and done.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/13/mp3_breast_implant/print.html

Here's an appealing thought: an mp3 breast implant which will allow surgically-enhanced girls to store and play back their entire music collections from their 36DD assets.

[spag68]

13. New Tech

I guess I'm a Luddite, since the chance of me actually having this done are between slim and none, and slim left town.

[libnnc]

15. Doctor Who

Rise of the Cybermen.

:scared:

[lynnertic]

32. More like "The Long Game."

Which you have inspired me to write about here
http://www.lynnertic.com

[varkam]

16. Sign me up!

Never have to worry about losing another cell phone...

[Elidor]

18. But you'll never have an excuse not to answer

Because you'll always be home.

[varkam]

19. You could just tell them that you don't want to talk to them

:evilgrin:

[dkf]

20. Yikes. Sounds like a potential nightmare.

[Tabasco_Dave]

21. Maybe the Borg civilization started out this way? n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

26. Sorry Dave

I posted the same thing. I didn't see your post until the second time around. You beat me by a few hours. I just missed your post.
GAC

[Solon]

28. I'm afraid I can't do that.

Sorry, I had to do it, you walked right into that one! :)

[MiniMe]

22. How do you turn it off for meetings and the like?

And if you don't want to have it turned on at night?

[Posteritatis]

35. It comes with a free tourniquet! (nt)

[semillama]

23. You just know that everyone will get this implanted on their nether regions

and have it set to vibrate.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. You Will Become One With The Borg

This is kind of creepy, i think.
The Professor

[LanternWaste]

29. I really can't see it as any more or less

I really can't see it as any more or less 'assimilating' or creepy than an actual tattoo, or ear-buds from an I-Pod. From where I sit, it seems to me as six of one and half a dozen of the other. :shrug:

[blindpig]

27. Cell phones run on blood today

the blood of the people of the Congo basin, which is being pillaged for various valuable substances by international business, and the most important of those substances is coltan, necessary for cellphones, game consoles and other stuff. Five million dead to date, I believe. Congo ain't the only source of coltan, but it's the cheapest, the "civil wars", militia armies etc are both pawns and benefactors of the 1st world's lust for the stuff.

Can ya hear me?

[lame54]

30. Then AT&T can tap and record your thoughts...

:tinfoilhat:

[burrowowl]

36. What happens when the tattoo

becomes obsolete? More pain? Upside, less phones in the dump.