Programmable Tattoo Shows Smileys on Your Skin

Imagine yourself going round your everyday routine without anybody disturbing you, just the way you like it, because you have an angry-faced tatto on your right cheek.

The programmable tattoo concept by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute constitutes embedding a display below the epidermis of the skin, so that the “tattoo” would show on one’s skin. Nanotube-infused polymers are used as a”ink” which could be used to project display which you can change through the use of a display driver which gets the signal from a Wi-Fi network. This means that, in time, we could be walking social networking pages, complete with a “mood theme” on our cheeks, and a short bio written on another part of our body. I think I’ll pass.

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