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Topics => Science, Technology, & Medicine => Topic started by: BMG on October 14, 2011, 08:43:03 PM

Title: 'Smart' tattoos
Post by: BMG on October 14, 2011, 08:43:03 PM

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.6e1e2ad90e2d94b12b6258b7e9c5b33d.611&show_article=1 (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.6e1e2ad90e2d94b12b6258b7e9c5b33d.611&show_article=1)

It'll be all the rage with the kiddies in a few years!

Title: Re: 'Smart' tattoos
Post by: Pandora on October 14, 2011, 10:52:14 PM

"Medical sensing"?  It transmits.  It's an RFID patch.

No thank yew.

Title: Re: 'Smart' tattoos
Post by: Alphabet Soup on October 14, 2011, 10:56:00 PM

"smart tattoos" - an oxymoron if I ever heard one...

(Can I have a harrumphhh heah?!)

Title: Re: 'Smart' tattoos
Post by: Pandora on October 14, 2011, 11:01:25 PM

Harrumphhhh.

There's a form of colonoscopy camera in capsule form that one swallows and it transmits to the GI/radiologist/lab pics of its passage through the colon until it passes from the body.

That's about as far as I'm willing to extend my good faith and credit for such items.

Title: Re: 'Smart' tattoos
Post by: Libertas on October 15, 2011, 12:41:59 PM

I'll see your Harrumphhhh's and raise with a oh hell-no!

Last thing I want is for the state to get the idea I like being lojacked!

Title: Re: 'Smart' tattoos
Post by: IronDioPriest on October 15, 2011, 12:55:08 PM

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The wireless device is nearly weightless and requires so little power it can fuel itself with miniature solar collectors or by picking up stray or transmitted electromagnetic radiation, the study said.

I think that's pretty dang cool.