Implant video screen under your skin
Remember that episode of X-Files where the tattoo on a guy’s arm nearly killed Scully?
While the article is an April Fools phony, the patent behind it apparently is real meaning it’s only time before this really exists.
Tattooing is one of the oldest forms of body modification known to man. These days, getting a tattoo is a much safer and more standardized procedure then it once was. Modern tattoo artists use a tattoo machine (which is like a small, handheld sewing machine gun) to do the work.
The tattoo machine has remained relatively unchanged since its invention in the late 1800s. In fact, outside of improvements in safety and sterilization methods, there really haven’t been any great leaps forward in tattoo technology. That is, of course, until the recent introduction of the animated tattoo.
Animated tattoos are just what they sound like — implanted images that actually move under the skin. HowStuffWorks got to examine this technology closely and talk to Jay Sean Singer and Carl A. Pinter, the people who created it.
So when they do finally make one of these, the next step is to hack it. Then you could walk down the street with a transmitter and randomly hijack peoples tattoos. Then you could network the hijacked tats and have tat-bot systems.
The possibilities are endless for what you could do with those.
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Not necessarily.. Many patents exists for devices that won’t actually work (such as perpetual motion machines). It simply means that the design of the device is the property of its owner and is protected against copying. Interesting concept, though..
If you read to the end of the article, this is an April 1 joke.