Our Phones Will Be Glow In The Dark Tattoos In The Future

We come across so many new inventions everyday where some really get us excited for the future and some just scare us. We recently came across a video from New Scientist where we get to see the latest tattoo innovation in the market. The tattoo industry has grown tremendously over the years, from ink, colourful tattoos, white tattoos and glow in the dark tattoos. This new innovation is similar to glow in the dark tattoos, except it is a temporary one. This is a very technical tattoo where the electronic ink syncs up to your smartphone. You place it on with a damp paper like most body art tattoos and it rubs off after a few days.

“You’ll have these digital tattoo parlours which you can go to in 2050 and 5 minutes later you can walk out with the iPhone 22 on your forearm.” – Chris Harrison at Carnegie Mellon University

These electronic glow in the dark tattoos, are linked to your phone through a wire that is connected to a micro-controller and it triggers signals about your movements and displays notifications. This new invention is still in the early stages of development, but just thinking about having our phones tattooed onto our skin is freaking us out! Who would have thought something like this would come up, all we can do is wait to find out what happens. Watch the video and check it out for yourself, let us know if this creeped you out a little too?

People intuitively know the location of their own bumps and birthmarks, which makes them ideal locations for touch-sensitive buttons. – Martin Weigel at Saarland University