Skin gets smart with diagnostic 'tattoo' (photos)
by ZDNet Author | August 11, 2011 5:00pm PDT | Image 1 of 8
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A miniature diagnostic device with the mechanical properties of skin was developed by engineers at the University of Illinois. It can be mounted directly to the wrist or anywhere on the human body for EMG and other measurements.
The circuit almost becomes part of the skin as it bends, wrinkles, and stretches.
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They could have at least showed it actually taking a reading.
wonder if "they" can also track where you are and what you are doing...like a GPS?
how long before some idiot fundamentalist nut-job claims this is the mark of the beast? I can imagine this will feature in the next iteration of "Left Behind" or some other ridiculous sensationalist work.
Anyway, this looks like it will be really useful, perhaps it might also find applications for athletes, diabetic patients, epileptics... It seems like this could yield a lot of biological information that will yield other breakthroughs. Exciting stuff!
Anyway, this looks like it will be really useful, perhaps it might also find applications for athletes, diabetic patients, epileptics... It seems like this could yield a lot of biological information that will yield other breakthroughs. Exciting stuff!
@mkpelletier@...
Agreed, this looks useful. Considerably better than the implant that was a bit disconcerting.
Agreed, this looks useful. Considerably better than the implant that was a bit disconcerting.
@mkpelletier@...
Hey! Is that just "Big Brother" getting bigger, or is it the prelim to "the mark of the beast"? Both make sense to me. What do you think, Pelly? Don't be afraid, though... That this technical forum could even serve as a pretext for your cynicism just gives you away. And, their is certainly no need to preach from the existential pedestal... None will be swayed or intimidated. I recommend that you just close your eyes and let the existentiality fulfill you from the within.
Hey! Is that just "Big Brother" getting bigger, or is it the prelim to "the mark of the beast"? Both make sense to me. What do you think, Pelly? Don't be afraid, though... That this technical forum could even serve as a pretext for your cynicism just gives you away. And, their is certainly no need to preach from the existential pedestal... None will be swayed or intimidated. I recommend that you just close your eyes and let the existentiality fulfill you from the within.
@mkpelletier@... Obviously you haven't read the Bible, this couldn't be the mark:
Revelation 13:16-17
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelation 13:16-17
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
@mkpelletier@...
"Facinating, but...
how long before some idiot fundamentalist nut-job claims this is the mark of the beast?"
It's the premillinnealists that generally hold to this view. The word "fundamentalist" is overused and abused.
"Facinating, but...
how long before some idiot fundamentalist nut-job claims this is the mark of the beast?"
It's the premillinnealists that generally hold to this view. The word "fundamentalist" is overused and abused.
I think I can make out 666 on it if I close one eye and look at it upside down with a one way mirror while listening to Black Sabbath albums played backwards.
They'll have temporary, disposable video tattoos coming out of those little bubble vending machines, possibly with wireless networking capabilities. Then again, perhaps they'll also have wireless video eyewear out by then and this tattoo will just be another game controller (if, by sensors, they also meant strain gauges).
I'd like one that can read blood glucose and blink an LED when I'm either too high or too low.
"antennas" Garrrumph!!!
"The object of enforcing the wearing of the mark is not the minor one of cutting off the recusants from buying & selling... [T]he penalty of such recusancy is immediate death. The necessaries of life are to be withheld from such as have not the mark of the beast in order to bring them under the notice of the imperial authorities... A ruthless economic warfare is here proclaimed with a view to the absolute supremacy of the state..." --- R.H. Charles 1920 _A Critical & Exegetical Commentary of St. John pg 262 (quoted in Weinstein 1977-03-03 in Stevens v Berger 428 FS 896 @ 905)
"Congress itself in several instances has recognized a potential conflict between the use of [socialist insecurity] numbers & the rights of individuals to freedom of religious belief. Where it has considered the issue, it has resolved it in favor of religious scruples. For example, although all [tax-victims] ordinarily must acquire [socialist insecurity] numbers to work, the Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare is permitted to exempt such religious groups as the Amish from the obligation to pay [socialist insecurity] taxes 'if they are, by reason of the tenets of their sect, opposed to receipt of such benefits & agree to waive them'. WI v Yoder 406 US 205, 223, 92 SCt 1526, 1537, n.11, 32 LEd2d 15 (1972); 26 USC section 1402(h); S.Rep.No. 404, 89th Cong, 1st Sess, in US Code Cong. & Adm. News @ 1959 (1965) Similarly, the [Socialist Insecurity] Amendments of 1954, PL 83-761, 42 USC section 410(a)(8)(A), allowed clergy the option of joining the [socialist insecurity] system or staying out as their consciences dictated. See Sen.Rep.No. 1987, 83d Cong, 2d Sess, in US Code Cong. & Adm. News @ 3717-18 (1954). See also 26 USC section 1402(e). It would, or course, be inappropriate to deny necessary aid to the children because of their parents' religious beliefs." --- federal judge Jack Bertrand Weinstein 1977-03-03 in Stevens v Berger 428 FS 896 @ 906-907
"The New York state Department of Social Services, the Suffolk County Department of Social Services, & the US Department of Health, Education & Welfare are enjoined from denying to Virginia & David Stevens & to their children public assistance benefits for which they otherwise qualify solely because they refuse, for religious reasons, to obtain [socialist insecurity] numbers for the children." --- federal judge Jack Bertrand Weinstein 1977-03-03 in Stevens v Berger 428 FS 896 @ 908
"The object of enforcing the wearing of the mark is not the minor one of cutting off the recusants from buying & selling... [T]he penalty of such recusancy is immediate death. The necessaries of life are to be withheld from such as have not the mark of the beast in order to bring them under the notice of the imperial authorities... A ruthless economic warfare is here proclaimed with a view to the absolute supremacy of the state..." --- R.H. Charles 1920 _A Critical & Exegetical Commentary of St. John pg 262 (quoted in Weinstein 1977-03-03 in Stevens v Berger 428 FS 896 @ 905)
"Congress itself in several instances has recognized a potential conflict between the use of [socialist insecurity] numbers & the rights of individuals to freedom of religious belief. Where it has considered the issue, it has resolved it in favor of religious scruples. For example, although all [tax-victims] ordinarily must acquire [socialist insecurity] numbers to work, the Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare is permitted to exempt such religious groups as the Amish from the obligation to pay [socialist insecurity] taxes 'if they are, by reason of the tenets of their sect, opposed to receipt of such benefits & agree to waive them'. WI v Yoder 406 US 205, 223, 92 SCt 1526, 1537, n.11, 32 LEd2d 15 (1972); 26 USC section 1402(h); S.Rep.No. 404, 89th Cong, 1st Sess, in US Code Cong. & Adm. News @ 1959 (1965) Similarly, the [Socialist Insecurity] Amendments of 1954, PL 83-761, 42 USC section 410(a)(8)(A), allowed clergy the option of joining the [socialist insecurity] system or staying out as their consciences dictated. See Sen.Rep.No. 1987, 83d Cong, 2d Sess, in US Code Cong. & Adm. News @ 3717-18 (1954). See also 26 USC section 1402(e). It would, or course, be inappropriate to deny necessary aid to the children because of their parents' religious beliefs." --- federal judge Jack Bertrand Weinstein 1977-03-03 in Stevens v Berger 428 FS 896 @ 906-907
"The New York state Department of Social Services, the Suffolk County Department of Social Services, & the US Department of Health, Education & Welfare are enjoined from denying to Virginia & David Stevens & to their children public assistance benefits for which they otherwise qualify solely because they refuse, for religious reasons, to obtain [socialist insecurity] numbers for the children." --- federal judge Jack Bertrand Weinstein 1977-03-03 in Stevens v Berger 428 FS 896 @ 908
@Professor8 So religion uses laws to manipulate, and the law uses religion to do the same thing. Your point?
On topic, this is very old tech finally developed enough for a practical application, and I'm glad this one made it.
Regardless of the detractors who say its the mark of the Devil (yeah whatever) to those who deem it an invasion of privacy (i believe it is a very visible, topical and temporary way of tracking someone. Also it would have to be voluntary...) its a useful tool for the medical industry and could even become fashionable.
Now that really tiny solid-state devices are available, theres really no limit to what you could build into this:
Displays, sensors for movement, a 'lie detector' patch, geotagging, identification, all spring immediately to mind.
Like the telephone - a great invention that could be used for as much harm as good. Lets just hope its only evil is to generate lots of money...
Peace
On topic, this is very old tech finally developed enough for a practical application, and I'm glad this one made it.
Regardless of the detractors who say its the mark of the Devil (yeah whatever) to those who deem it an invasion of privacy (i believe it is a very visible, topical and temporary way of tracking someone. Also it would have to be voluntary...) its a useful tool for the medical industry and could even become fashionable.
Now that really tiny solid-state devices are available, theres really no limit to what you could build into this:
Displays, sensors for movement, a 'lie detector' patch, geotagging, identification, all spring immediately to mind.
Like the telephone - a great invention that could be used for as much harm as good. Lets just hope its only evil is to generate lots of money...
Peace
I have a child with autism unable to speak. He somehow left our yard the other day. We found in the neighbor?s yard but my greatest fear is and was what happens if we can't find him? He has no idea how to communicate his address even if he knew it. This device maybe "the mark of the devil" for some but for hundreds even thousands of families in my position this may be a GOD SENT!!!
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