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Skin Displays

By john | November 28, 2005

Found an interesting “Headline from the Future” in Popular Science this month titled 2029: Google Your Vitals with Skin Displays. The short article presents the concept of having a “dermal display” beneath the skin that can relay health statistics about the body to the user. Nanobots in the body monitor the body’s health and relay that information to “pixelbots” that display the information on the skin.

This is certainly an interesting concept, but just scratches the surface of the possibilities of what could be done with nanobots and pixelbots. I would expect both of these types of bots to be controlled directly by the users’ brains, so that nanobot warnings could be sent directly to the user, and the user could instantly access the nanobot info directly just by thinking about it. It would also be interesting if the user could directly control the pixelbots at will to display whatever the user wants (like tattoos). Of course, I’m sure my ideas are only scratching te surface as well, but there is a lot of potential in these types of cyberbonic technologies.

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