Prediction: OLED Tattoos

Oct 1st, 2007 | By admin | Category: Computer, Featured, Humanity

With Sony going commercial with their first OLED Televisions this week I got to reading about Organic LED technology. This got me to thinking. What if the substrate used to help hold the organic layers in place were not plastic but human flesh?

Think of it. We already have implantable chips. We have found ways to fuse neurons with computer circuitry and pass signals back and forth. We can grow human ears of the backs of laboratory mice. We can transplant skin and organs. Why not push the envelope and see if OLED technology can fuse with true organic material like human skin?

Imagine a tattoo that can be programmed! One moment it is a wizard, the next it is a lion, the next it is the physics equations for that big exam. Mix in some extra circuitry and programming and have it connected to an implanted chip and presto! Mood Flesh! Angry? Your OLED tattoo flashes red in anger. Sad? A low pulsing blue tone. Talk about the human cuttlefish!

Just an interesting thought experiment. Do you think it is possible? Drop me a note.

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  1. EB October 2nd, 2007 7:04 am :

    You said (elsewhere) in regard to this, we live in odd & exciting times. True enough. This is on the creepy side of odd rather than exciting, imo.

  2. biggandy October 2nd, 2007 4:26 pm :

    Hey EB! Glad to hear from you! I was thinking of other uses for oled tattoos, such as tattooing sex offenders on the back of their hands with these things and when they get within a child who is chipped (more and more of our children are getting chipped), it will start flashing a bright white background and bold lettering CHILD MOLESTER or some such thing.

    Scary the invasion of technology into our very persons!

  3. EB October 3rd, 2007 7:46 am :

    Howdy. :-) Maybe I should have an oled tattoo that flashes a PMS warning to my friends and family. Anything done to a convicted child molester that would warn others and assist in preventing him (or in rare cases, her, to be fair) from molesting again is fine with me.
    I would feel very uncomfortable chipping my child, though I can certainly understand the concerns for safety that would lead a parent to do it. Tell me, BiggAndy, who is chipping their child? Are people seriously doing this?

  4. biggandy October 3rd, 2007 3:14 pm :

    http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/09/03/uk.implant/

    http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/10/60771

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,785073,00.html

    Here are a few links to review.

  5. EB October 4th, 2007 7:32 am :

    Strange. And it’s a strange, scary, ugly world in which we have to ponder the notion of implanting our kids with chips in order to prevent their death or abduction at the hands of sickko perverts. :-(
    Makes me say:
    Even so, Come (quickly) Lord Jesus!

  6. biggandy October 4th, 2007 5:17 pm :

    Amen.

    Was that a trumpet???

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