Nokia Patent Covers Tattoo That Vibrates When People Call You

Just when you thought they've done it all, Nokia comes out with a vibrating tattoo. If you've been thinking about getting a permanent tattoo, take another second to think about it. Instead of getting a creative design, you can get get this magnetic tattoo from Nokia!

Nokia wants to take haptic feedback to a new level. Haptic tech is employed, for example, when your phone vibrates as you type something into your touchscreen. Haptics deal with your sense of touch by applying forces or vibrations to your skin. Which is exactly what Nokia has in mind. They are proposing the application of tattoos with ferromagnetic inks that will vibrate depending on the commands from your cell phone.

The patent is made of a material that attaches to your skin. This material can detect a magnetic field and emit a vibration. For this to work, the phone has to send out a different magnetic field for each type of action.

Now, what if you want a REAL tattoo instead of a little piece of material? Well, Nokia is on the same mind track as you. UnwiredView stated, "The tattoo would be applied using ferromagnetic inks. The ink material would first be exposed to high temperatures to demagnetize it. Then the tattoo would be applied. You’ll apparently be able to choose the actual image you want as the tattoo. The procedure is identical to that of getting a ‘normal’ tattoo – only the ink is special."


Apparently, after the tattoo has been finished, it would then need to be magnetized. This will make the tattoo extremely sensitive to any magnetic field and will function just as solidly as the material patch would. 


I don't know about you, but this is all a little too much for me. Can you imagine being in a buisness meeting and all of a sudden your arm starts vibrating out of control? "Excuse me men, I'm just getting a phone call. It'll stop in a second." Weird!


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