Welcome To My Life, Tattoo
Author: AF Duncan
February 28th, 2008
Actually, I admittedly don’t have any tattoos or piercings. 90s alterna-culture cured me of ever wanting either of those, which I guess shows you how much of a contrarian pain in the ass I can be.
Anyway, this tattoo is cool as all hell: a subcutaneous working cell phone powered by your own blood. Now that’s f*&king science, people!!
The basis of the 2×4-inch “Digital Tattoo Interface” is a Bluetooth device made of thin, flexible silicon and silicone. It´s inserted through a small incision as a tightly rolled tube, and then it unfurls beneath the skin to align between skin and muscle. Through the same incision, two small tubes on the device are attached to an artery and a vein to allow the blood to flow to a coin-sized blood fuel cell that converts glucose and oxygen to electricity. After blood flows in from the artery to the fuel cell, it flows out again through the vein.
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5 Responses to “Welcome To My Life, Tattoo”
February 28th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
See, I know I am such a flighty bastard that any tattoo that I got in passion would be disliked by myself within a few weeks.
February 29th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Sorry dude. I’m not exactly the most religious person in the world or anything, but that’s a little too “Mark Of The Beast” for me…
March 1st, 2008 at 9:39 pm
I’d get one in a heartbeat
April 27th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Well, now I think I have heard everything…pretty friggin impressive.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Not real “artistic” but I guess you don’t have to worry about losing your cell phone. I can think of some pretty cool sleeves that you could incorporate the phone into though… hhmmm.