All of us have started getting used to people wearing tech devices. After Apple Watch and Google Glass we are not surprised with new wearables. But the latest innovation can amaze anybody. Developed by software design and development firm Chaotic Moon in Texas, this device enables tracking health data.
Chaotic Moon has called the device Tech Tats. It is being made with conductive paint and special components which make it possible to gather and send the data regarding human body.
As the firm describes, “Tech Tats are what we’ve dubbed biowearables: wearable technology that isn’t just, say, strapped to the user’s wrist, but interacts with their wrist. (In this case, in the form of a tattoo.) In other words, you’re eliminating clunky, expensive devices with a low-interference, low-cost, and low-hassle alternative, and using the user’s skin as the interface. It’s technology that is, in a sense, part of the user. The result? Total integration.”
Technologists from Chaotic Moon state that the new tattoo will collect the information and notify about the earliest fever signs, heart rates and other health indicators.
Another interesting aspect is that this way you can also carry your credit card details and your ID – straight under your skin. Plus, the tattoo always acts as a GPS.
Imagine how easier life could be if we could quickly find people who get lost, make sure we are in good health and forget about carrying IDs or credit cards.
Sounds quite unrealistic for the nearest future. Or is it only my opinion?
The world of people with devices under their skin seems quite scary. What would be the next step? Tatoo that enables control of the person’s actions? Let’s just hope that our bright future will bring us only those innovations that will benefit humans’ life and peace on Earth.
Bibliography:
Acharya S. (2015), Tech Tats: Tattoos that can track your health data, International Business Times, Available at: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tech-tats-tattoos-that-can-track-your-health-data-1530743.
Lindig S. (2015), The Next Wave of Wearable Tech Will Surprise You, Elle, Available at: http://www.elle.com/culture/tech/a32202/tech-tats-temporary-tattoo-wearable-device/.
Quite scary, but diabetes have already the electronic devices which are with them 24 hours per day and monitor their life processes. It is like they will connect it to the web. We are connecting our houses and cars. Maybe it is time for ours bodies.
Cool idea and probably it’s a future of our being, BUT companies like Chaotic Moon and others must conduct an enormous explaining campaign – I believe people are so reluctant to put some device under their skin.
Well having GPS in/on my body seems to be strange and terrifying but generally I like the idea – especially that on some course me and my friends already made a presentation about our idea of an internal chip with similar possibilities. I think that this is how future will looks and it is inevitable.