E-Ink Tattoo

Skanky Vamp

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This is e-mazing, but I bet it will be e-xpensive.

Imagine having a tattoo in your body that you can control from your own smartphone. Change up your tattoo art, show important messages, or just erase your tattoo altogether for that important job interview. Well, the future has arrived... thanks to groundbreaking subdermal E Ink technology, we have been able to develop the world’s first E Ink tattoo.

Electronic Ink is an incredible technology. Prior to E Ink’s development, a dynamic image display required a constant current of electricity, inevitably tying the longevity of the display to the power source. Like any other implantable wearable technology, adding a display to our body has been limited by the requirement on battery power. E Ink changed this by providing a medium that consumes energy only when the content of the display changes, not requiring a current to maintain the image on its display. The result is that we can create a screen on our skin that displays information with very little energy usage.



Dashboard
Who needs an Apple Watch if you can have all the same information displayed directly on your body? Sync up the current time and date, battery level, upcoming calendar invites, and OS notifications (such as number of unread emails, SMS and missed calls). Stay on top of your playlist with Spotify, iTunes and Pandora integration that shows the current artist and track name, as well as player progress. You won’t miss anything urgent, since your tattoo will display incoming calls and SMS messages for 30 seconds after an incoming event.

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Strava
Stay on top of your running and biking stats with real-time Strava integration! The display shows off all your current activity, such as activity time elapsed, current speed/pace, 60-second speed/pace history chart, and heart rate. If you’re rocking out to Spotify, iTunes or Pandora, the display also shows the current track and name of next track.

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I though this would be lame, but shit this is pretty cool.

I'd rather get real ink than dermal implants though, but still cool.
 
I'd rather get real ink than dermal implants though, but still cool.
But to have a digital display on your forearm to access and read your emails, etc.. That is awesome.. real ink cant do that!
 
Oh, the possibilities with this are endless! For me real ink is nicer for art purposes, but this is cool for many other purposes.
 
Skanky Vamp
Skanky Vamp
Right.. when I was looking at the 'art' it looked horrible.. then they showed the animation.. then everything else it can do.
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