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KRISTI N. SCOTT
The H+ article
Skin Phone
said
Welcome to the conceptual solution that combines the beauty of a tattoo
with the convenience of your cell phone and Bluetooth technology, the
"Digital Tattoo Interface".
DTI, developed by Jim Mielke, debuted at this year's Greener Gadgets
Design Competition 2008, receiving the Notable Entry award. This is one
tattoo with a lot of potential: a phone that would be implanted under
the skin, with microscopic spheres that would act as the touchscreen
buttons.
Don't want to show off your phone? The concept has a button that, when
pushed, can render the phone invisible. If you get a call, just push
the same button to answer the display and have the phone reappear, with
video capability.
Kristi N. Scott was the author of this article and is a Master of
Arts
in Liberal Studies student and
Graduate Assistant for Service Learning at the University of Southern
Indiana in Evansville, IN.
Her focus is on the
relationship between technology and society, Mass Communication and
Sociology,
with a strong personal interest in transhumanist themes. She is a
freelance
writer and copyeditor for H+ magazine
and has been an intern with the Institute for Ethics and Emerging
Technologies
and the Journal of Evolution and
Technology since 2007.
Kristi is a member of the
American Society of
Bioethics and Humanities, the World Transhumanist Association, and the
Women's Bioethics Project.
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