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What is an electronic tattoo? Based on the phrasing in this article I can't determine if this is a wearable device that magnitizes to some weird tattoo or the d

What is an electronic tattoo? Based on the phrasing in this article I can't determine if this is a wearable device that magnitizes to some weird tattoo or the device is the "tattoo"

IanCal 4y ago
Looks like you're putting a super thin layer of graphene on the skin, here's a tweet I found from one of the people working on this mentioned in the article. https://mobile.twitter.com/dr_kireev/status/1385428450719145988 https://mobile.twitter.com/dr_kireev/status/1385428450719145...
- w4ffl35 4y ago
  Thanks. I thought this was a real tattoo which would have been pretty wild
  - BeefWellington 4y ago
    I'm sure parts of the body mod/biohacking community are already working on it. People are already doing things like embedding RFID into their hands. When I read the headline I thought they had somehow managed to get an actual tattoo to respond to blood pressure changes through the pressure itself, similar to how the cells in Octopi change colour.
    - w4ffl35 4y ago
      my actual tattoo reacts to something (allergens?) occasionally and raises up (I can feel the lines when i touch it). i can imagine that an electronic tattoo of some sort would feel really strange. I almost embedded an RFID a few years back but chickened out.
      - iamacyborg 4y ago
        Your tattoo probably is the allergen. It happens with mine too occasionally, it's more noticeable if I'm hot or if I've not moisturised recently.
      - jamal-kumar 4y ago
        What colour is your tattoo? I was hearing that red ink can especially be a source of these kinds of skin problems because of the presence of small amounts of mercury in it [1] [1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tattoo-ink-mercury-and-other-toxins/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tattoo-ink-mercur...
        w4ffl35 4y ago
        mine is just black its not even shaded
      - Kaibeezy 4y ago
        I read that as “I embedded an RFID in a chicken”. Reminds me I went to a dairy the other week where chipped cows trigger feeding and milking bots for detailed monitoring, dietary microadjustments, etc. I’ll see if there’s info worth posting. Livestock seems like it would be the place to start with permanent medical data implants, including batteries and a computer.
- PebblesRox 4y ago
  Got it, sounds like it's a tattoo in the sense of temporary tattoo/skin decal.

What is an electronic tattoo? Based on the phrasing in this article I can't determine if this is a wearable device that magnitizes to some weird tattoo or the device is the "tattoo"

IanCal 4y ago

Looks like you're putting a super thin layer of graphene on the skin, here's a tweet I found from one of the people working on this mentioned in the article. https://mobile.twitter.com/dr_kireev/status/1385428450719145988 https://mobile.twitter.com/dr_kireev/status/1385428450719145...

w4ffl35 4y ago
Thanks. I thought this was a real tattoo which would have been pretty wild
- BeefWellington 4y ago
  I'm sure parts of the body mod/biohacking community are already working on it. People are already doing things like embedding RFID into their hands. When I read the headline I thought they had somehow managed to get an actual tattoo to respond to blood pressure changes through the pressure itself, similar to how the cells in Octopi change colour.
  - w4ffl35 4y ago
    my actual tattoo reacts to something (allergens?) occasionally and raises up (I can feel the lines when i touch it). i can imagine that an electronic tattoo of some sort would feel really strange. I almost embedded an RFID a few years back but chickened out.
    - iamacyborg 4y ago
      Your tattoo probably is the allergen. It happens with mine too occasionally, it's more noticeable if I'm hot or if I've not moisturised recently.
    - jamal-kumar 4y ago
      What colour is your tattoo? I was hearing that red ink can especially be a source of these kinds of skin problems because of the presence of small amounts of mercury in it [1] [1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tattoo-ink-mercury-and-other-toxins/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tattoo-ink-mercur...
      - w4ffl35 4y ago
        mine is just black its not even shaded
    - Kaibeezy 4y ago
      I read that as “I embedded an RFID in a chicken”. Reminds me I went to a dairy the other week where chipped cows trigger feeding and milking bots for detailed monitoring, dietary microadjustments, etc. I’ll see if there’s info worth posting. Livestock seems like it would be the place to start with permanent medical data implants, including batteries and a computer.
PebblesRox 4y ago
Got it, sounds like it's a tattoo in the sense of temporary tattoo/skin decal.