Nokia Wants to Give You a Vibrating Tattoo So You Don’t Miss Calls
Posted by Justin on March 23rd, 2012
Nokia has applied for a patent which amounts to tattoo which would accommodate customizable buzzing for your phone.
Here is how it would work:
The patent application describes “a material attachable to skin, the material capable of detecting a magnetic field and transferring a perceivable stimulus to the skin, wherein the perceivable stimulus relates to the magnetic field.” The material would react to magnetic signals emitted by a nearby electronic device, such as a smartphone. It would offer some sort of micro vibration, and could be set to certain vibrating patterns. The idea is to provide you with a more direct way to notice when you’re receiving some sort of incoming device alert, whether it be a phone call, email, or text message.
Congratulations I Didn’t Feel The Vibration Through My Pants Excuse Practitioners and welcome to Screwsville.
In reality though, this is something that could be used for far more than smart phones. Imagine how many “alerts” we get everyday. Our phone, our car, our appliances and anything else you can think of. What if we had a way to prioritize some to directly interact with our body.
It’s a pretty cool idea at least.
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March 24th, 2012 at 9:53 pm
Seems like its more a case of them just calling dibs than something they are planning to work on anytime in the near future… I hate when companies do that.