Tattoos That Can Controll Your Phone

Tattoos came into existence as far back as the Neolithic era, or around the fourth to fifth millennium BC and was brought into England from Captain Cook during his voyages from Tahiti where he was introduced to tattoos and since then, tattoos have been practiced across the globe and has of today has joined the technological world as devices such as phones created in this time can now communicate with it (tattoos).

You might be wondering, how is that even possible?

Tattoos, to some people is used as cultural symbols among many tribal populations, as well as caste-based Hindu population of India, while others use it for healing, religion, decorative purposes, as a form of punishment. Tattoos are more common among prisoners, musicians and are used as a way of life, fashion but as of this very day, scientists at the MIT Media Lab and Microsoft Research have designed metabolic body art that can control and communicate with electronic devices such as smart phones and laptops.

About some weeks back, Tattoos were once again introduce to the world or public in a whole new way. Imagine the fact that all I have to do to operate my phone is to play with the Tattoos on my body that is being connected to my phone that is, operating my phone through a Tattoo that is carved on my body.

MIT researchers have created tattoos that functions, interact and act as interface for smartphones and other digital devices. These tattoos have the ability to send and receive information while adding style to our personal appearance as these tattoos are wearable and are of different design.

The tattoos can connect wireless to smartphones through NFC, a type of technology used for mobile payments. The tattoos make use of lithium polymer battery and its brain is a small computing chip.

Currently, there are three versions of this smart tattoo:

1) The first one uses the tattoo as an input device that turns the skin into a touch pad or controller to adjust your phone.

2) The second one makes the tattoo serve as an output device and allows the user to check information such as body temperature or their mood. In other words, the overall status of someone's mood could easily be ascertained finally,

3) The third tattoo serves as a communication device. A digital device held near tattoo would scan it for information.

The scientist wanted to show that wearable technology can really be customizable.

COMPONENT

The tattoo is made up of:

1) Adhesive tattoo paper

2) An insulation layer

3) Gold leaf

4) Chocolates

4) A Silicon Overlay and would cost less than $175 to build the working prototype.