Animator envisions sub-dermal displays
posted Sep 23rd 2005 4:15PM
Note to Hart and Huntington tattoo shop: you guys so need to hook up with Gina Miller, a designer and animator who
is looking to make your business totally obsolete. Obviously seeing a bright future in
implanted devices, Seattle-based Miller,
with help from nanotech author Robert A. Freitas Jr., has finished her concept-animation project that envisions a
dermal display system consisting of billions of nanobots that can self-assemble and emit photons to form text and
graphics directly on the skin. While user-changeable tattoos are the most obvious implementation of this technology,
Freitas proposes the more "practical" deployment of using pixelbots to display info gathered from the army of
healthbots that will one day run amok in our bloodstreams. The futuristic system also promises to be touch sensitive,
allowing you to send a message back to your nano-friends telling them to get the hell out of your prostate.
[Via Medgadget]
Now I won't have to worry about regretting that "VAN HALEN RULES" tattoo I've been planning on getting.
why? and what about when you age and get all wrinkly? will doom3 graphics turn into old sailor tattoo quality video? or do you have to get your skin pulled tight every 5 years? i guess it can be useful for emergency purposes but i cant see many other uses. seems easier to just carry something in your pocket. plus, it would make cheating on tests WAAAY too easy. if our generations had to struggle and study then so will my kids!
How do I level up my stats?
I wonder how they plan for this to work on people that aren't transparent.
I just invision a BSOD on my hand looking at that...
this is a complete rip off of a design that won a popular science/core 77 contest last year. the graphics even look like they were just lifted and overlayed with new elements.
but with all the designs out there I bet half of my work is being mirrored by others without any knowledge on either end.
hey guys, look at this hi-res pic
http://www.nanogirl.com/museumfuture/images/dermal.jpg
in the middle of the top:
"Lifetime Orgsm Count: 1375" isnt this cool ? :D
it counts how many orgasms you already had.
that means ;) no more cheating for womens.
I wonder when will it be featured in It Plays Doom.
pretty damn cool
Shane, I don't think this looks anything like that PopSci.Core77 winner:
http://www.core77.com/challenge/memory/pages/Tattoo_display_facial_final.htm
http://www.core77.com/challenge/memory/
Uh, how do they get black pixels from "photon emmiting nanobots"?
I've toyed with the idea of geting a tattoo with the ink replaced with fleshtone/black E-ink. Use a magnetic grid to change it to whatever you want, and carry a small magnet of a cartain polarity to 'wipe off' the tattoo when needed. Only hurdle is that a) I don't know if the particles themselves are toxic or not (buckyballs are, though I think the E-ink particles are a few orders of magnitude larger) and b) getting hold of some of the E-ink in it's raw form.
Why use nanobots for the display, static particles will do, either emiting light or absorbing it. Also I'ld want to have that display on my forearm, not on my hand. First of there is much more space, but most importantly the skin is much more even there.
And while we are at envisioning things why focus on medical use, much more widespread use would be to play Freecell, or, as already pointed out, Doom ;)
Actually, when envisioning something that big, she should have put more thought into a generic OS interface rather than any particular application. Cause the interface I spot there looks like 20 years in the past, not in the future.
Kinda gives "Palm Pilot" a whole new meaning...
Static particles wouldn't work because our body emits an energy field though I'm not sure if it would effect it any but it might?
Doom port would rock but talk about a true palm pilot right? :D I want to use a calculator on there and contact list including wireless phone. mwahhaha! ILLEGAL OPERATioN! YOUR BODY WILL NOW SHUT DOWN
Looks like someone read "The Diamond Age" by Neil Stephenson. Welcome to 1997.
who needs this when you can get your visual implants to project and follow an image where ever it moves within your range of sight. i'm sure thatll be available before this will. i mean if we're speculating on the future and all.
Weird, but cool :s
NO! I don't want my blood alcohol count displayed on my forearm- or hand- or whatever.
I call Big Brother.
Granny
I would be happy with a digital watch tattoo, normal watches chaffe my skin. Diabetics would like an insulin -level tat. I wonder how an alarm would be built in.
HAHAHAHA! Imagine all the rampant cheating in school.
Over my dead body. Prince Charles won't like this one bit
Hey, so long as I can hack my PalmOS to display a blood alcohol that is half of the real value, I'll be happy.
FYI - Philippe Starck thought of this idea about 6 years ago....
that would suck if your body got hacked :-P
Do you think that if you get paralyzed you could press ctl alt delete to reboot?